curtly

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Recent Examples of curtly 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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Adverb
  • Practice answering concisely and confidently in your own voice.
    Kathy Caprino, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • In the third quarter, Minnesota briefly switched Julius Randle onto Towns and Rudy Gobert onto OG Anunoby.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The president's latest threats are disrupting, at least briefly, what had been a sustained rally in tech, built on hundreds of billions of dollars in planned spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.
    Ari Levy,Jordan Novet, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Curtly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curtly. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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