debrief
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“Flight debrief complete. No reprimands. No firings. No problem,” Cao wrote on social media.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
After the dinner, one senior European official texted their counterparts a one-word debrief: “Phew.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Rushing, in his first game back in the lineup after being removed Monday to rule out a concussion, huddled with Ohtani and pitching coach Mark Prior on the mound to debrief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
The freshly ousted president of Kosovo pops in for a debrief.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
“Check to see who you’ll be running with and where, and I expect to see you all back here at 3:05 p.m. so we can debrief and pack up for the day. All good?”
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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In another video, the same woman debriefs the experience: “I just blacked out and spent nearly 600 euros at the French pharmacies. So, let’s go through everything I got.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hardin says the team debriefs after each season to discuss what worked as they develop the next installment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
"I found them to be very transparent about everything," she said about OceanGate staff debriefs.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
“We joked about that,” admitted Reddick’s crew chief, Billy Scott, “that he’s the only one that sits in our debriefs without a win.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Fans have been gathering online to do all this since before the turn of the century, but in recent years, shows have started producing their own post-episode debriefs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
“For now, they’re not going to get out,” said Carlos David Guillén, a former political prisoner and ex-serviceman who has debriefed American officials on the officers jailed in Venezuela.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
To get a sense of Roche’s new offerings, Guggenheim debriefed Christopher Mason, a computational genomics professor at New York’s Weill Cornell Medicine who had early access to the systems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Cárdenas remembered Padilla working so hard on the campaign trail that he fell asleep standing up as they debriefed one night.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
We debriefed Dingell to get her read on the results.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
I think he had just remembered that the training officers debriefed the OJTs every day and reviewed the actions of regular officers.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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After monitoring practice, debriefing his team and entertaining sponsors under the floodlights, he winds down for bed around 3:30 a.m., which is 9:30 p.m. back in central Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Either way, I’m sure there was a debriefing later.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
Along with their superior speed, the Roche products seem competitive with Illumina’s in accuracy, according to Guggenheim’s report on the debriefing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
But the strategy was successful enough that Gonzalez plans to sit down with national labor leaders for a debriefing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024
Presumably I was to wait for a superior officer to come in—a final training, or at least a debriefing of instructions before I was assigned a permanent duty station.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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