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Adverb
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Legendary comic director Mel Brooks put it most succinctly to The New Yorker.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
10 Dec. 2025 -
But sometimes people veer into personal details or hobbies instead of succinctly presenting their career accomplishments.—
Sophie Caldwell,
CNBC,
24 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The Pentagon chief responded tersely after a viral backlash to a photo of a group of overweight Texas National Guard troops headed to Chicago.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Padilla gives his perspective Padilla then tersely described what happened next.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2025
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Keep it short and sweet Responding concisely and confidently will assuage any lingering concerns an employer might have about your work history, McGoff says.—
Sophie Caldwell,
CNBC,
1 Apr. 2026
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One of the strengths of the film is a precise visual design that alternates between distance and intimacy, with Caswill using the landscapes of her Alberta location to clearly and concisely express the sense of loneliness and isolation afflicting her heroine.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Earlier Tuesday, a prominent Emirati diplomat elliptically criticized regional countries over the attacks the country has faced.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Her outside-looking in remembrances (Romvari shoots scenes sometimes from the perspective of looking through a window) elliptically convey much – parental anguish about what would be the best call to action for the entire family, not the upheaval felt within the family.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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Investigators are not sure how Mario was able to gain entry to parts of the hospital, Bettison said, adding that the hospital was briefly placed on lockdown.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Pereira was held briefly in a Lisbon jail before being released on a ten-million-euro bond.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Just watch the ball crisply pass from insole to insole, then await a corner/free/penalty kick that might deliver a goal and appease Americans’ offense-centric mind.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
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Garcia, who wrote and directed the movie, has come up with some crisply clever faux-noir dialogue, and part of the joke is that Joe speaks in his hardboiled pensées while everyone else talks like a normal person.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 May 2026
Adverb
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The Yangs were called in and curtly told the judgment was being overturned, their lawsuit dismissed without trial.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Soon afterward, my mother was summarily banished from The Perfect Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.—
Daisy Rockwell,
Vogue,
27 Nov. 2025
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In March 1963, Pym’s longtime publisher, Jonathan Cape, summarily rejected not just her latest manuscript, An Unsuitable Attachment, but all her work as no longer publishable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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“Aphoristically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aphoristically. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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