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Six example sentences with terse, each labelled with its topic.
His terse email, three words and no greeting, ended a negotiation that had already run for eleven weeks.
Business
The error message is terse to a fault, and half the support tickets exist only because nobody can decode it.
Technology
Hemingway's terse dialog leaves out everything the characters already know, which is what makes it feel overheard.
Literature
The coach's terse halftime talk lasted forty seconds, and the team came out and scored the first twelve points.
Basketball
The palace issued a terse statement of eleven words, and reporters spent the evening arguing over what each one meant.
Politics
The judge's terse ruling ran to two sentences, and the losing side needed a week to work out why it had lost.
Law
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