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The findings support once weekly brisk interval walking as a practical therapeutic option for adults with central obesity, especially those who have difficulty fitting several workouts into their schedules.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026

My skin took on the sheen of someone who had just returned from a brisk run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

It was a joy to walk all 18 holes of Sunday's final round with Fox and the time-efficient Burns playing at such a brisk pace.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Instead of pushing infrastructure or welfare spending, local officials appear focused on hidden debt resolution, reflected in the brisk issuance of debt-swap bonds,” said Alex Loo, an analyst at TD Securities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Makes me nervous,” he said, finding the cloth on his desk and giving his glasses a brisk rub.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

While heatwave conditions will continue across many parts of England and Wales through this coming week, a brisker wind means temperatures have dropped a degree or two relative to recent days.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

But Nicole moved at a brisker pace, lessening the amount of rainfall over the region.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

As a northeasterner, I've long associated back to school with the cooler, brisker days of pumpkin spice season.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

One morning there was a different smell in the air, and the ship was moving oddly, with a brisker rocking from side to side instead of the plunging and soaring.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly accelerated in August to the briskest pace since April and firms reported input price pressures eased to the lowest since late 2020.

From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2022

The planets are putting on an amazing celestial show nightly, and many regions of the country are about to host some of the briskest bird traffic of the year.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

Ms. Mearns, never rushed by this, creates marvelous dynamic variety within it, often finding time to phrase with seeming slowness, while rising to its briskest passages as if riding the full power of a wave.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

British factories followed Asia's lead, increasing activity at the fastest rate in seven months while creating new jobs in at the briskest pace in more than three years.

From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2014

The plane was sending the shavings flying their briskest when he came to a dead stop at something black which was moving along the plank.

From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

Leaving the pace to the piebald, he brisked along in review.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

Mrs. Rachel sighed, and then brisked up again.

From Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

"When I was in Edinburgh," I replied, "I had not the spirit of a pooked hen, but holding the banner at Sanquhar hath wondrously brisked me."

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

So then Saxton gave civilization one for its Ma, and talk brisked up.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace

At the first announcement of their decision, Rhys brisked up wonderfully.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

As I write the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam: and shutters; a strong draught sweeps round the balcony; it looks doubtful for to-morrow.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

She was relieved to see that the oddly assorted men and women about her were brisking up, and beginning to talk, even to laugh, with one another.

From From out the Vasty Deep by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

“He wandered off by himself,” Major Coote answered, brisking up a little.

From Athelstane Ford by Upward, Allen

"Such a charming musical evening—such a treat!" said she, brisking up, and quite unaware of what had been passing round her the last two hours.

From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft

“Oh rather,” he assented, brisking up at the prospect of a row.

From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram