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Six example sentences with pithy, each labelled with its topic.
His diary entries are pithy, a single line about the weather that somehow tells you the whole year.
Literature
The board wanted a pithy summary, one page that a director could read between the lift and the meeting.
Business
A pithy slogan beat a detailed manifesto again, and the losing side spent the whole winter arguing about why.
Politics
Marcus Aurelius wrote in pithy fragments, and a single line about control still gets quoted two thousand years later.
Philosophy
The coach's pithy halftime message was four words, move the ball, and the team scored on its next six possessions.
Basketball
A pithy commit message tells the next engineer why the change was made, not just which lines were touched.
Technology
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