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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

“Wicker” is brisk, visual storytelling boosted by Sofi Marshall’s clever editing and Lol Crawley’s assured camerawork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The hangman was doing a brisk trade in murderer’s wash water, but Beetle was at last able to secure a bottle.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2023

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

Many of the passengers were considerable merchants at Lima, and the briskest Spaniards I ever saw.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

Now, however, she brisked up, and insisted upon hearing the whole story.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

After a while the party started on their way once more feeling greatly brisked up.

From The Adventures of Akbar by Byam Shaw

Mrs. Rachel sighed, and then brisked up again.

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

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

As I brisked out of bed the following morning at half-after six, I could not but wonder rather nervously what the day might have in store for me.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

"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 Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

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

From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward

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

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

From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

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