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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

This will mean lower pressure will form, bringing rain and brisk winds at times, and temperatures will drop.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, recently recommended adults aim for about 150 minutes of moderate activity a week - and a brisk walk counts towards that amount.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The wind, brisk before, had worked itself up into a temper.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The show, the first in a five-part series, is considerably brisker than that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2023

I often take this with me on leisurely park walks with my little girl, or on brisker walks running errands, to keep me hydrated and warm against the cold.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 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

She brisked and sparkled—the years fell off from her—she started off looking fairly girlish in her hope and enthusiasm.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

True, when it came to getting the Children of Israel out of Egypt, as Cousin Bill J. observed, "Things brisked up considerable."

From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

"Oh, that's all right," Hewson brisked up in response, as he took the cigar St. John offered him.

From Questionable Shapes by William Dean Howells

We heard she'd been in Washington last winter, so Eben he brisked up and tried her on politics.

From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

At the first announcement of their decision, Rhys brisked up wonderfully.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks

“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

"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

“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