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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

Chow, 41, is a Cambridge-educated lawyer who represented herself at the trial, speaking at a brisk pace and responding to questions quickly.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Some of the rain could be heavy with a chance of thunder and lightning and will be accompanied by brisk south-westerly winds.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Still, Seo expects the company to sustain solid earnings growth in 2026 and 2027, driven by brisk shipments of high-bandwidth memory 4 products for artificial intelligence data servers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

But by now the whole party was moving off at a brisk canter.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

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

We would be in a better place if the speed had been brisker.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2023

Musicians and tech people have all become brisker about interactions, communicating online and speaking quickly and efficiently in rehearsals.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 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

Put three of our best horses under three of our briskest lads and let them ride with all speed to tell our people to come quickly to our relief.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

They brisked up when they heard this offer.

From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward

"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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

She brisked up with a kittenish purr when disturbed, and remarked that the Hengishire air was like champagne.

From Red Money by Fergus Hume

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

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

From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

The two friends entered The Hague, brisking up their pace and stepping gallantly abreast.

From The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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

From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward