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The legendary country singer, who died Tuesday after a brief battle with cancer, “worked up until the day she died” on multiple projects, her longtime manager Danny Nozell said in a statement to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The country music star died at the age 80 after a brief battle with cancer, her team announced.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Harry and Meghan met the king in July, during a brief British visit -- the first time in four years the couple's children had met their grandfather.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

A company lawyer pulled him aside, he said in the 2024 podcast, asking whether he was loyal to OpenAI and what he was up to during Altman’s brief ouster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even Magistra Grimsby, an angular, ageless woman who taught Latin as if it were her native tongue, managed a brief, awkward hug.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

“I get regular intelligence briefs about Iran and China all the time, and then this hits, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, OK.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

“I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases ... The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN,” Ellison wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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

“I’m just wearing my usual. Starting from the bottom, I have B.V.D. briefs, size ten, one tee shirt...”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

Vaill could have made Pride and Pleasure a briefer book if she had chosen to constrict the male narrative and focus on the sisters alone.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

Speaking to Today, McEwan contrasted the contemplative letters of the past - from the likes of Napolean and Darwin - with today's briefer emails, which may miss deeper personal insights.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

Today, our jet planes have made even the longest intercontinental flights briefer than the duration of any human infectious disease.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Under former general manager Perry Minasian, college players would be stoked to be drafted by the Angels, who did not hesitate to promote top prospects to the major leagues after the briefest of minor-league stints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

When Bowie briefly takes Connelly’s hand for the briefest one-two-three, one-two-three, imagining millions of hearts swooning in concert isn’t hard to do.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

Brandin Podziemski, who scored 19 points in the first half, stole the briefest sliver of momentum by making a running half-court shot to end the second quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

The cool air was a jolt, and for the briefest time, he paused.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Ford was uncharacteristically quiet in public after the Canadian government last week briefed the country’s premiers on the broad outlines of a trade deal with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was briefed on the talks but refused to say whether the Ukraine war was raised.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

"There were no meetings with the president of Russia. That's all I can say on the subject. Naturally, President Putin is briefed immediately about everything," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Not all L3Harris board members were briefed on the 2023 complaint and it is unclear whether the matter was formally investigated, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Tou can assure Father I'm very well briefed indeed.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

A senior serving officer, who played a lead role in compiling the briefing, is under investigation for allegedly failing to ensure its accuracy.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The new measures aim to support workers and businesses during "challenging times," Canada's government said late Monday, with officials to hold a press briefing to detail Ottawa's response Tuesday morning.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

In 2019, China’s then-premier, Li Keqiang, visited the site and got a briefing from Chen on Hengli’s future plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

“For these companies, this is a real point of reckoning,” attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett of the Social Media Victims Law Center said during a press briefing Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

From "City Spies" by James Ponti