briefed

Example Sentences

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A White House official told CBS that he has been briefed on the shooting.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Foreign diplomats and opposition leaders briefed our Hudson Institute delegation about Ukraine’s fight against corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

According to the indictment, Van Dyke was first briefed on the U.S. plan on Dec. 8.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

In the example Gorka shares most often, he briefed the president on a militant recruiter in Somalia who had been under surveillance for over a year during President Joe Biden’s administration.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

He had briefed the staff in the laboratory on Leesburg Pike—which had been handling monkey blood and tissue samples— about the need to handle these specimens as if they were infected with the aids virus.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston