as in briefly
in a few words
since there's little room on the form, you'll have to state concisely the reason why you're returning the merchandise
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Recent Examples of concisely
Practice answering concisely and confidently in your own voice.
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Kathy Caprino, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Kathy Caprino, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concisely
Adverb
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On Friday, Munich airport briefly closed after drone sightings brought flights to a halt, news agency Reuters reported.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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Moulton, after all, briefly sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Toni Collette, meanwhile, succinctly responded with a series of screaming emojis.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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There is not a way to succinctly break down tiebreakers yet, because the Giants and Diamondbacks play the next three days, the Padres and Diamondbacks play the final three days of the season and both the Giants and Diamondbacks have a series remaining against the Dodgers.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The extent to which the entire AI boom is backstopped by Nvidia’s cash isn’t easy to answer precisely, which is also one of the unsettling things about it.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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Like any good oracle, Le Bon knows precisely what the future holds.—
Rumaan Alam,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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These hallmarks are crisply preserved.—
Thomas Wójtowicz,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Navigation depicts maps crisply, too.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Aug. 2025
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The original Peaky Blinders series culminated with season six in 2022, shortly before Murphy went on to star in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, nabbing an Academy Award.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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Stephen's stepmother lived in the home until shortly before the hurricane.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Five agents and top-level executives were known to have been summarily fired last month in a wave of ousters that current and former officials say has contributed to declining morale.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Sep. 2025
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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
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“Concisely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concisely. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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