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There will be plenty of blustery showers in west Scotland and north-west England - any gaps between these could give a brief chance to view.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

During a brief court proceeding Friday, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui scheduled a preliminary hearing for Tuesday to allow Floris and Benavides to begin challenging the basis for the case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Rabbi Nadav Caine and his family gathered in their Michigan home to break challah bread for their weekly Shabbat meal, a brief respite from the acrimonious midterm election campaign dividing Jewish voters in their state.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

And for a few brief seconds I haven’t thought about being a kernel in hot oil.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Once the Court had those documents and the amicus briefs, the whole packet was distributed to the justices at 10 separate conferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The states also responded to briefs from the Block the Merger coalition, a group of press freedom and film organizations that has called the settlement weak and unenforceable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Federal judges have found that the government filed statements generated by artificial intelligence that referenced nonexistent case law, wrote briefs that ignored facts and filed declarations with inaccurate dates, the ProPublica review shows.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

He briefs reporters and does television interviews, but few people would recognize him on the streets of most cities in America.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

He paused and then said he wanted the parties to submit written briefs arguing what ruling he should make.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Although Dorothy Parker tried her hand at plays and had a successful writing career in Hollywood—her screenplays included 1937’s “A Star is Born”—she excelled in briefer forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

"I'd like to commend the briefer on at least picking on one of the men in the cabinet instead of the women," he added.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

He harbored similar hopes for last November’s much briefer cease-fire, to no avail.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2024

I have brief visions of the bull hook flying at my head and then even briefer visions of getting up right now, this minute, and walking back to the hobo camp.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

After repeatedly warning of the rivers’ endangerment, however, Mr. Winder concludes with only the briefest summary of the projects currently aimed at guarding against the dire outcomes he foresees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In his memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery,” published this year, Newsom acknowledges the liaison with Rippey, describing it as “the briefest of affairs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

The briefest of bows and she’s back in the wings for a snack.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024

And though she had only had the briefest taste of what she would have to give up, she understood now why sages made that vow.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

But it was easy to see an implied threat, according to one of these people and other officials briefed on the conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg programme in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, Swinney said emails showed Flynn had not been briefed ahead of a Holyrood committee meeting last month.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Transport Scotland said the documents released this week "made clear" Flynn had "not been briefed on the issue" before his committee appearance, and the emails sent to his office had not been shared with him.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

People briefed on the investigation say he sought out airlines and routes that would take him to Israel and had planned to act on an earlier trip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

Of the 39 injured people being cared for in hospital, at least 19 are in a critical condition, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said at a press briefing on Sunday evening.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia announced in her inaugural briefing on Tuesday that Kimberly Guilfoyle was being fired as ambassador to Greece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

She abruptly exited the briefing after just 11 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Aside from the clean-up over the lawyer credentials, Zacharia has yet to announce when she will hold another press briefing in the White House.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

They continued their geek talk until the others arrived for the briefing.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti