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But Brinsley is unconvinced and the two trade terse responses.

The comparison prompted Kelly to release the terse statement: “Martha McSally is no Gabby Giffords.”

It is a mighty tough slog, I will have to give them that, written in terse and exclusive science-ese.

She had earlier offered a terse description of how her asthmatic brother had come to die.

My response to poisonous emails is a terse “thank you for contacting me” and nothing more.

A dozen of these terse but meaningless sayings now dance before our recollection, for who has not heard them, even to loathing?

"Hit's the pore house fer a cow hand," was his terse aphorism on the subject, and Landy had never seen a "fitten" poor house.

Ripley briefed the general situation as it stood on the night of the engine theft in a few terse sentences.

Bill Hayes gave a terse account of his stewardship during Hollister's absence.

Bill, to use a terse but slangy term, proceeded to go up in the air.