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Perhaps one is better-educated or dumber or terser or more comical or more prone to go off on tangents or whatever.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Do Multiple Narrators and POVs with Style 2009

For a terser summary of this entry, see WWF WildWorld profile of this ecoregion.

Talamancan montane forests 2010

If House of Leaves were only terser it would belong.

MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? 2008

Some lists encourage verbosity; others prefer terser discussions.

Basic Netiquette For Email Lists And Forums | Lifehacker Australia 2010

The text has been trimmed to a running time of two hours and 15 minutes by way of a series of nips and tucks whose purpose appears to be to make an already lean script terser and more immediately accessible.

There Will Be Lots and Lots of Blood 2008

Harvard's comment on the subject is even terser: "We don't have them," says Marlyn McGrath Lewis, the university's director of undergraduate admissions.

C U IN THE CHAT ROOM 2008

Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin had a much terser evaluation of the exchange.

Live-Blogging the Debates 2008

I think you may be aware of another, terser, way of saying that.

Armstrong Expands on the Theme 2006

There was a similar, though much terser paragraph in a Black Mask story that Chandler "canibalized" for The Big Sleep, and I'm really annoyed that my Chandler collection seems to have migrated somewhere unbeknowst to me.

What is John Galt? James Killus 2007

If the book kept up with the voice the same as this, I would not read it, but if it became terser and arrived at actual elements of the story quickly enough to get past this early repetition, I might give it a chance.

HH Com 474 Miss Snark 2006