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Temperatures will generally be around or a little below the seasonal norm and it will feel particularly chilly in southern England and south Wales where there will be a brisk easterly breeze.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Oracle, which has borrowed aggressively to fund data-center development, saw its shares gain 11% to $144.54 after it forecast brisk revenue growth and said its capital-expenditure binge will soon peak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Analysts are parsing the impact of Robinhood’s brisk rollout of new services and products.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Moderate activities included brisk walking, doubles tennis, leisurely swimming, and household tasks such as cleaning windows, vacuuming, or mowing the lawn.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The weather was brisk, and she could hardly go traipsing around Saint Petersburg without a wrap.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

A brisker pace could tip this show from good to great.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 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

It was the briskest kind of a bicker that ensued for a little while there on the bosky, broomy hill-side in the evening light.

From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

It is all the best-humoured affair imaginable, refreshingly full of country airs and brisked up with a fine flavour of romance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 by Various

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

From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance

Susan brisked up a little for the occasion, and looked very pretty as bridesmaid.

From The Courtship of Susan Bell by Anthony Trollope

"But this will not be the finish," said I; "the dogs are not howling," and at that old Betty brisked herself.

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

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

From The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

“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 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