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How can you use “concise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
My Concise Oxford Dictionary (1964) still gives only that meaning.
His secret: a smooth, concise, brutally powerful swing--not to mention 20-inch biceps.
The same definition and pronunciation are given in Webster's New World and in the recent edition of the Concise Oxford .
The verb burble, according to The Concise Oxford, means speak ramblingly, make murmuring noise.
The simple facts are that American college (or desk) dictionaries today contain about 170,000 entries (about half that number of headwords), up from the ±130,000 they had till the 1960s); British concise dictionaries contain far fewer than that: the Concise Oxford , the best-selling dictionary in the UK, contains about 120,000 entries (probably not more than about 60,000 headwords), which is equivalent to what are classed as concise dictionaries in America.
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