brief

After a brief honeymoon period, Piker was always going to find himself at odds with the establishment.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

What he thought was going to be a relatively brief meeting was instead hours of Tartikoff patiently going through the script page by page.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Its location was exposed only when it tore apart a passing star, producing a brief but powerful burst of light.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

There is a brief detour about frozen salmon.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

The Incorrigible Lumleys began their day’s to-doawoos by visiting Fern and Edward in the babies’ room, and offering some brief lessons in yapping, woofing, howling, burping, wiggling, napping, and other essential skills.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

Last week, federal judge Sharion Aycock sanctioned lawyers on both sides of a civil case in Mississippi after they submitted AI-assisted legal briefs that cited non-existent cases.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Fortunately, the supermarket sold kids’ underwear and we bought him a three-pack of boys’ size XL briefs with Pokemon characters on them.

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

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

Three years afterward the world is in a slightly better mood, and the time difference between New York and Paris is much briefer.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 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

Under former general manager Perry Minasian, college players would be stoked to be drafted by the Angels, who did not hesitate to promote top prospects to the major leagues after the briefest of minor-league stints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

The briefest of handshakes followed before Littler marched off.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 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

For the briefest of moments, the wind lifted Brightbill off the ground.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

Grynspan, the former vice-president of Costa Rica and head of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, was followed by former Guyanese foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, according to two diplomatic sources briefed on the results.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Dobrindt said Germany's threat level would be raised following the attack, while other states were also being briefed about the attack and advised to review their security measures for major events.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was briefed on the stabbings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Sir Trevor Phillips, a British journalist and former politician who recently joined CBS News as senior global affairs correspondent, is expected to have a role on the program, according to people briefed on the plan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Toutle High School—the same place where Crandell and Mullineaux had briefed the residents about the destruction and power of the volcano only nine days before—was the staging area for helicopters and rescue efforts.

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

Official sources briefing Iranian media stressed that any reopening would depend on the United States fulfilling what Tehran sees as its commitment to end its own naval blockade of Iran's ports.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Spotify recently launched Personal Podcasts, an agentic AI program that generates personalized audio episodes like a daily briefing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro held a triumphant press briefing to announce a felony indictment against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

At the end of each two-day briefing, JetZero’s team steps away and the airline representatives talk privately about what they hate about the aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

‘I didn’t get the briefing, and I’m pretty sure the information wasn’t covered in Frank’s pamphlet. Could you tell me what’s going on here?’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan