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A brief exam revealed the eagle was quite underweight and weak, and her feet were caked with mud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Laurie Schalow, Chipotle’s chief corporate affairs and food-safety officer, said in a brief statement that the chain was tracking the investigation, adding: “At this time, we don’t believe the ingredients we source are associated.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Alexis Mac Allister's poor challenge on Dani Olmo received nothing more than a brief admonishment, prompting Spain fans to ironically chant the name of Fifa president Gianni Infantino.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The precise timetable for the festivities had not been fully confirmed on Monday morning, however, with Sanchez scheduled to make a brief visit to Algeria before returning to Spain in the afternoon.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

She tried, for one brief fleeting second, to smile at him.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In the past, the Labor Department’s briefs had generally sided with the employees.

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

That’s why legal briefs in the case are riddled with citations to an obscure 1915 book by a Boston lawyer named Josiah Henry Benton, who argued that historians had overlooked the practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

A pair of Orange County immigration attorneys received temporary suspensions after the court discovered they used generative AI to write briefs that included “multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

If I died, I didn’t want people remembering me for the stacks of legal briefs I’d written or the corporate trademarks I’d helped defend.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Speaking to Today, McEwan contrasted the contemplative letters of the past - from the likes of Napolean and Darwin - with today's briefer emails, which may miss deeper personal insights.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

Today, our jet planes have made even the longest intercontinental flights briefer than the duration of any human infectious disease.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Now, I have the strange romantic notion that, for the briefest of moments, Americans joined hands and celebrated 200 years of an unrealized but longed for dream: Liberty and justice for all.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 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

It reminds me of the 2016 ceremony, when Mark Rylance won, raising the briefest of hopes for Mark Ruffalo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Alexander and Beowulf gave only the briefest apologetic parting glance at Penelope, who felt utterly helpless to stop them from going with the admiral and Lord Fredrick.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

President Gerald Ford was on vacation in Vail, Colorado, but an adviser briefed the new White House chief of staff, Dick Cheney.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

By late March, top military leaders briefed the president that they would need several more weeks to completely eliminate Iran’s military threat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Jarvis told BBC Newsnight that he had discussed the investment plan with Burnham, but it's understood he couldn't be briefed on certain security issues and did not sign off the full thing.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

“Now that you are a Son of the Six, there are confidential matters regarding the city’s...security that you should be briefed on.”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

It followed new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s first press briefing at the helm of the central bank, where he vowed to get inflation down to 2%.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

A House of Lords briefing has estimated, external that by July 2029, 301 life peers would be aged over 80.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

A Foreign Ministry spokesman, when asked about Chen during a Tuesday media briefing in Beijing, said the country is governed by laws and rejected allegations of wrongful detention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

In a July 2 press briefing, he said, “We have received no information. No updates. If there has been any direct outreach I am unaware of it. I don’t want to speculate about anybody’s health.”

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Then, when there was no immediate response: “I suppose Bessie’s been briefing you by the hour.”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger