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County officials said voters weren’t questioned and polling places ran normally despite the brief ICE presence nearby.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Whatever the case, the percentage of able-bodied Americans in the labor force recently hit the lowest level since the 1970s, except for a brief period during the pandemic.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Slow Horses, now in its sixth season, has been an Emmy-nominated success, and, after a brief absence, Eleazar has returned to playing the spiky Louisa Guy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Their movement disturbed the orbits of smaller objects, setting off catastrophic collisions and producing brief periods filled with large amounts of dust, similar to what astronomers now observe in extreme debris disks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Officials frequently used the technology when compiling one-page briefs that were passed up the chain of command, according to a source who was given a demonstration of Maven by Palantir earlier this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Marketers are putting a new question in briefs for creators: How well do you influence AI?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

My briefs were brand-new and had that just-out-of-the-package chemical smell.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Ex-CIA vice presidential briefer Julia Curlee is lately lauded everywhere for courage in coming out as trans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

"I'd like to commend the briefer on at least picking on one of the men in the cabinet instead of the women," he added.

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

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

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

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

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

Then, after the briefest pause, he let go of the photo itself, the image of the woman still compelling, though smeared and oily.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg programme in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, Swinney said emails showed Flynn had not been briefed ahead of a Holyrood committee meeting last month.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the room, the prime minister was briefed that “we were somewhat surprised” that “there are still a number of skirmishes and a large number of casualties.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

There was no point, people briefed on the discussions say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The prime minister is also said to have told the meeting that he had briefed international leaders about plans in phone calls on Monday afternoon.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

But Gordievsky was already briefed on his new duties, and he recognized instantly that the meeting was a pretext for something else.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

At a 10 a.m. briefing on Sunday morning, the National Weather Service said Las Vegas recorded 1.08 inches of rain since midnight, breaking the daily record for Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Our primary concern is still the heavy rains and the flooding that can occur,” she said during a briefing Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Her appointment fills one of the White House's most visible positions, with the press secretary responsible for briefing journalists, fielding questions about administration policies and serving as a chief public defender of the president.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Images of him, his workplace and a hotel where he had lived were found in a "briefing document" on Sepahvand's mobile phone.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

At midnight, Tibbets gathered his crew for a final briefing on the mission.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin