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Parton, 80, died Tuesday after a brief battle with cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The country music star died at the age 80 after a brief battle with cancer, her team announced.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Harry and Meghan met the king in July, during a brief British visit -- the first time in four years the couple's children had met their grandfather.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Oregon’s Cascade Policy Institute provides an eye-opening brief chronicling Portland’s failed “war on the automobile.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

A brief quake on a beautiful morning, the same as so many other earthquakes on so many other mornings, had changed heaven to hell.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

“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

Loyal, and not someone who briefs against colleagues to journalists or indulges in political games, he has been around the top of the Labour party for three decades.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

I could now spend the day reading, writing letters, discussing issues with my comrades, or formulating legal briefs.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Although Dorothy Parker tried her hand at plays and had a successful writing career in Hollywood—her screenplays included 1937’s “A Star is Born”—she excelled in briefer forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

Vaill could have made Pride and Pleasure a briefer book if she had chosen to constrict the male narrative and focus on the sisters alone.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

Al Ulbrickson also made a few, much briefer, remarks to the press.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

After repeatedly warning of the rivers’ endangerment, however, Mr. Winder concludes with only the briefest summary of the projects currently aimed at guarding against the dire outcomes he foresees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Series creator Christopher Storer conveys this in the briefest, tightest shots of hands lovingly plating food, as well as in panoramic views of the series as a whole.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

"None of this is beer-proof let alone waterproof," says Prof Damian Bailey, with only the briefest flicker of somebody regretting their life choices.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Brandin Podziemski, who scored 19 points in the first half, stole the briefest sliver of momentum by making a running half-court shot to end the second quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

For the briefest moment, Clare thought he had been discovered.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was briefed on the talks but refused to say whether the Ukraine war was raised.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Dozens of officers involved were briefed at a nearby police station before joining a convoy to Daniel's home.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Anthropic’s annual revenue reached $65 billion in July, according to investors briefed by the company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

Each fresh arrival was briefed in this way; people—police, doctor, family members, servants—stood in knots that unraveled and reformed in corners of rooms, the hallway and the terrace outside the French windows.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The watchdog also said the officer may not have accurately represented some information which could have resulted in the briefing "lacking impartiality".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

U.K. energy CEOs received a briefing from British officials about boosting cybersecurity after an Iran-linked cyberattack disrupted a small power provider for four days last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

At a press briefing on Tuesday, WHO expert Thierno Balde described efforts to ramp up and decentralise the response to bring it closer to communities where the virus is spreading.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

“For these companies, this is a real point of reckoning,” attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett of the Social Media Victims Law Center said during a press briefing Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Even though it’s the final demonstration, the briefing auditorium buzzes at the sound of Dylan’s name.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston