The difference between private and public support was succinctly defined in a 1995 report to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities by Alberta Arthurs, then director of the arts and humanities division of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Mereological nihilism entails the denial of what is called classical mereology, which is succinctly defined by philosopher Achille Varzi:

It can be defined succinctly as Europe, plus the richer countries of the former British Empire (USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand) and Japan.

Phædrus wrote, with some beginning awareness that he was involved in a strange kind of intellectual suicide, "Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it's been intellectually defined, that is, before it gets all chopped up into words - .

What has changed is that self-esteem as an idea and a societal force has lost its unified champions and to a great degree its ability to be succinctly defined.

McNay's view is that Cherry Red was at heart a label that offered a space for artists who would otherwise not fit the image of some of the more succinctly defined and stylised independents.

So the terms CDO (collateralised debt obligation) and CDS (credit default swap) are succinctly defined.

Sara Diamond, who has written several books about evangelical movements in America, has succinctly defined the philosophy that resulted from Schaeffer's interpretation: "Christians, and Christians alone, are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns."

Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is succinctly defined in a seminal work by Levy (1997: p. 1) as "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning".

That word, not to be found in many dictionaries, has been defined succinctly by William Safire, a columnist for this newspaper, as "a noun fitted with an adjective that it never used to need but now cannot do without."