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Parton died Tuesday at age 80 after a brief battle with cancer and a series of health issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Daily Mirror's front page continues its tribute to country music legend Dolly Parton, who died on Tuesday after a brief cancer battle.

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

We make a brief stop in La Coruña, Spain, where we are enchanted to hear the Spanish language.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

“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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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

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

He paused and then said he wanted the parties to submit written briefs arguing what ruling he should make.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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 answers have grown into stories, now briefer than before but still mostly complete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 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

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

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 of bows and she’s back in the wings for a snack.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024

And again, for the briefest moment, I thought, How easy it would be.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

The talks in Washington came after Prime Minister Mark Carney briefed Canada's regional leaders on the outlines of a pact to stabilize bilateral trade.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Part of the group's claim was the MoD knew asbestos was present at Skrunda-1 before both exercises but troops were not briefed accordingly.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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

The Ukrainian drone operators eliminated a U.S. armored brigade in the exercise, according to U.S. officials briefed on the exercise and one participant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Comstock, the Oklahoma lawyer who had served as the guardian to several Osage, had personally briefed Senator Curtis on the bureau’s catastrophic bungling.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

It is alleged the briefing document "gave an imbalanced view of the risk away fans posed", contributing to the decision to ban the supporters.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

One has the tool generate a daily briefing on the overnight markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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

The three heroes hopped into their individually labeled tubes and slid down to their briefing stations, where they were surrounded by blinking computers and glowing video screens.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein