brisk
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Analysts are parsing the impact of Robinhood’s brisk rollout of new services and products.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
After a pianissimo, ambient rumble combined with a brisk layer of tapping, both produced inside the piano, a gentle, melancholy theme is played on the keyboard, repeating and gradually expanding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Aerobic exercise is physical activity that increases heart rate and breathing, such as brisk walking, swimming, or cycling.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Even without the federal subsidies, the used EV market has been brisk — thanks largely to the spike in gas prices, as my colleague Caroline Petrow-Cohen has reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
The NFL has historically maintained a tight grip on game duration and kept them brisker than college contests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
A brisker, more classically mounted western might have kept her offscreen, relegating her to the sheriff’s back story.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
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 R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
She brisked up with a kittenish purr when disturbed, and remarked that the Hengishire air was like champagne.
From Red Money by Fergus Hume
The old landlord brisked up wonderfully at the prospect of such a struggle.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
She was feeling quite brisked up by her interview with Shaw, and her indignation supplied her with strength.
From Good Luck by L. T. Meade
The night air and moonlight brisked him up; he felt a reaction towards Sabina and perceived that she must have suffered a good deal.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
Leaving the pace to the piebald, he brisked along in review.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
“Oh rather,” he assented, brisking up at the prospect of a row.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
“He wandered off by himself,” Major Coote answered, brisking up a little.
From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Marie Belloc Lowndes
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