brief
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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
The brothers' attorney, Joe McBride, told reporters after the brief hearing that his clients are innocent.
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
I stared at the brief typed words where Lieutenant Rahms’s finger rested.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
He is expected to continue shepherding some of those briefs, though now without Kendall's leadership.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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
The parties were due to file briefs on the subject when the government suddenly announced a settlement had been reached.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
The Supreme Court agreed without explanation to block the appeals court ruling until at least May 11 while the parties file legal briefs.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Supreme Court, national organizations joined us and filed amicus briefs urging the Court to rule in our favor.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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
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
Gollum in his own way, and with much more excuse as his acquaintance was much briefer, may have made a similar mistake, confusing kindness and blindness.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
There is the briefest moment of serenity before they do.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024
But there isn’t even the briefest of celebrations for this achievement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
The woman glanced away for the briefest of moments and seemed to come to a decision.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
It’s not clear to what extent the Board of Education was briefed about the travel costs prior to the raid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
“The faculty hasn’t been briefed on anything,” she said, “so all I know is what I saw and what others told me they saw. And it was pretty bad on our end.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
Scaloni added that he has been briefing his side on the best way to handle England striker Harry Kane and midfielder Jude Bellingham, who have both scored six goals during the World Cup.
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
The two countries "quickly canvassed" the Chinese missile test, Luxon told reporters in a briefing after the talks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
When that first afternoon briefing ended I sat outside with Sam Begay and Bill McCabe, one of the code talker teams who’d already seen combat.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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