brief
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What he thought was going to be a relatively brief meeting was instead hours of Tartikoff patiently going through the script page by page.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Mary Harris: For context, can you give me a brief update on where we are with the Ukraine war?
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Its location was exposed only when it tore apart a passing star, producing a brief but powerful burst of light.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
There is a brief detour about frozen salmon.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
He must have seen the movie a thousand times, so he recognized this brief establishing shot before the credits.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Loyal, and not someone who briefs against colleagues to journalists or indulges in political games, he has been around the top of the Labour party for three decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Last week, federal judge Sharion Aycock sanctioned lawyers on both sides of a civil case in Mississippi after they submitted AI-assisted legal briefs that cited non-existent cases.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
A pair of Orange County immigration attorneys received temporary suspensions after the court discovered they used generative AI to write briefs that included “multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Encyclicals aren’t meant to be strict policy briefs but rather a letter on a topic the pope wants the global Catholic community to seriously reflect upon.
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
My briefs were brand-new and had that just-out-of-the-package chemical smell.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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
He said he was confident the prime minister would want to find who the anonymous briefer was and "get rid of them if he can find out".
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
If my husband and I were fine spinning the wheel of chance, our search would have been much briefer.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
Gollum in his own way, and with much more excuse as his acquaintance was much briefer, may have made a similar mistake, confusing kindness and blindness.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
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 handshakes followed before Littler marched off.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
It is the second-shortest book to win the prize, and covers the briefest timeframe of any book on the shortlist.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024
For the briefest of moments I imagine clearing away the rock and digging a pond to grow water lilies and red bog flowers.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
CBS News said the plan came up during Trump's cabinet meeting on Friday, according to sources briefed later.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Plans to escalate the campaign have been shelved in part because of those shrinking supplies, The New York Times reported, citing two people briefed on the matter.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
People briefed on the property say Putin spends time there, but they didn’t say how frequently he visits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Sir Trevor Phillips, a British journalist and former politician who recently joined CBS News as senior global affairs correspondent, is expected to have a role on the program, according to people briefed on the plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
His men had briefed him about the pots and pans.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Official sources briefing Iranian media stressed that any reopening would depend on the United States fulfilling what Tehran sees as its commitment to end its own naval blockade of Iran's ports.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Spotify recently launched Personal Podcasts, an agentic AI program that generates personalized audio episodes like a daily briefing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro held a triumphant press briefing to announce a felony indictment against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Earlier this week the agency released briefing documents warning that some results from Replimune’s single-arm study were “not interpretable,” prompting shares in the company to lose nearly a third of their value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Then, when there was no immediate response: “I suppose Bessie’s been briefing you by the hour.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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