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"It forces the person to perhaps feel like they're rocking back and forth for that brief moment when the speed of the car suddenly changes," says Hac.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

They experience a brief catharsis, a release of their anxiety about succumbing to temptation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Parmelin joined the Federal Council in 2016 as defence minister and has held the economy brief since 2019.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Portfolio rebalancing at the start of the new quarter may have steered some capital back into beaten-down Treasurys, helping fixed income catch a brief bid.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

They soon met a runaway young woman, who, after a brief explanation, agreed to help in bringing the old gentleman home.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

“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 briefs reporters and does television interviews, but few people would recognize him on the streets of most cities in America.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Both sides must now submit lengthy written briefs, and Judge Graf set the next hearing date for 1 September.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

I wonder how many pairs of Hanes briefs did Charlie sell at this very spot?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

The health secretary insisted he was "not challenging the prime minister" adding: "I'm not doing any of the things some silly briefer said overnight."

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 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

Journalists crowd together in the hope of hearing from him, microphones are thrust into the air and camera operators stretch above the crowd for the briefest glimpse of the game's biggest star.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

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

The briefest fantasy: Mabel appears at the doorway, catches sight of me.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

The breakdown was messy and mired in miscommunication on both sides, a person briefed on the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The FBI briefed the Met officers to question Bayoumi about the other high-priority exhibits, but the detectives in the custody suite were never given, or briefed about, the plane diagram.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

One of the older Air Force Ones then appeared to have been called into action when Israel briefed the US about a possible missile threat when Trump was leaving the Ankara summit.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From that point on, President Bush included me on his short list of world leaders whom he briefed on important issues.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“The whole system was, in a sense, just boiling — primed and ready to release all of that stored up energy come January 7th,” he said at a Thursday press briefing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"People are watching very closely how Canada is handling this process," a government official said in a media briefing on Thursday.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

At the Thursday briefing, Kim, the South Korean minister, said Lutnick conveyed his understanding of Seoul’s concerns about the deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Now there should be another: while the lawyers argue the case in federal court, the rest of the White House press corps should make sure the chairs in the briefing room are empty.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

This briefing was held in room 226, which did exist but was locked.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman