brief
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For a brief period, the energy being released reached roughly 400 billion times the output of Earth's Sun, surpassing even the most powerful supernovae known to astronomers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s a remarkable rise for a woman who didn’t graduate from college, had a previous brief marriage, at age 20, to a man more than 40 years older and once declared bankruptcy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"We are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news," Cambridge University's top administrator, Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice, said in a brief statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
After a brief pause in June and July, U.S. stocks have resumed their pattern of jumping from record high to record high.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Who has something that will burn easily, even for a brief time?"
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
“I get regular intelligence briefs about Iran and China all the time, and then this hits, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, OK.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
“I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases ... The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN,” Ellison wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
He is expected to continue shepherding some of those briefs, though now without Kendall's leadership.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Over the last year, the Labor Department has filed amicus briefs — friend-of-the-court filings that lay out legal arguments for judges — in several class-action lawsuits on the side of the defendant company.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Those Pokemon briefs were surprisingly comfortable, and I hadn’t worn briefs since I was in, like, third grade.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Those uprisings, later coined the Arab Spring, succeeded in bringing about a short democratic sojourn in Tunisia and a much briefer one in Egypt, but they also unleashed unrest.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
He said he was confident the prime minister would want to find who the anonymous briefer was and "get rid of them if he can find out".
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
If my husband and I were fine spinning the wheel of chance, our search would have been much briefer.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
He harbored similar hopes for last November’s much briefer cease-fire, to no avail.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2024
I have brief visions of the bull hook flying at my head and then even briefer visions of getting up right now, this minute, and walking back to the hobo camp.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
In his memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery,” published this year, Newsom acknowledges the liaison with Rippey, describing it as “the briefest of affairs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Sinner did not face a single break point in the opener, but the briefest of blips allowed Borges to take a break lead early in the second set.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
When Bowie briefly takes Connelly’s hand for the briefest one-two-three, one-two-three, imagining millions of hearts swooning in concert isn’t hard to do.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
Five of the top 10 briefest spells have been since 2020, while Colin Todd's stint at Derby dates back to 2001-02.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
Sand to all sides, occasionally a scattering of boulders or the briefest silhouette of jagged mountains in the far-off distance.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
The person actually leaving, of course, is White House “pep secretary” Karoline Leavitt, who returned from paid maternity leave about a month ago and has only briefed the press corps twice since returning.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
CBS News said the plan came up during Trump's cabinet meeting on Friday, according to sources briefed later.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
A security official briefed on the ongoing forensic investigation told AFP it could take a long time for Cairo to release its results.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
People briefed on the property say Putin spends time there, but they didn’t say how frequently he visits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
On the way home, my mother briefed me about Jeffrey’s treatment.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
In 2019, China’s then-premier, Li Keqiang, visited the site and got a briefing from Chen on Hengli’s future plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
He told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast it was "surprising" that Swinney was calling for the Ming Yang plan to be reconsidered since he had received a national security briefing about the plan.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"I appreciate everybody who came out and celebrated and, you know, had fun with us," the Kansas City Chiefs player told a briefing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
No decision has been made on Romo’s long-term future at the network, Berson told journalists at the network’s annual press briefing on the NFL season at parent company Paramount’s New York headquarters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Butler and Juliet nodded, as though this were a normal briefing.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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