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For a brief period, the energy being released reached roughly 400 billion times the output of Earth's Sun, surpassing even the most powerful supernovae known to astronomers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Gemini 2.5 Pro, released in March 2025, and Gemini 3.0 Pro, released in November 2025, enjoyed brief stints at the frontier until Anthropic’s Claude models usurped them, Schwarz said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

It can analyze years of a patient’s history and flag risks in a way a physician can’t during a brief visit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

"We are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news," Cambridge University's top administrator, Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice, said in a brief statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Later he would remember that “the views were so brief and fuzzy, a missing summit so unexpected, we were in denial about it.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

“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

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

Over the last year, the Labor Department has filed amicus briefs — friend-of-the-court filings that lay out legal arguments for judges — in several class-action lawsuits on the side of the defendant company.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Those Pokemon briefs were surprisingly comfortable, and I hadn’t worn briefs since I was in, like, third grade.

From "Winger" 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

"I'd like to commend the briefer on at least picking on one of the men in the cabinet instead of the women," he added.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 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

Three years afterward the world is in a slightly better mood, and the time difference between New York and Paris is much briefer.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2024

Al Ulbrickson also made a few, much briefer, remarks to the press.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Journalists crowd together in the hope of hearing from him, microphones are thrust into the air and camera operators stretch above the crowd for the briefest glimpse of the game's biggest star.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

The briefest of bows and she’s back in the wings for a snack.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024

The woman glanced away for the briefest of moments and seemed to come to a decision.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The person actually leaving, of course, is White House “pep secretary” Karoline Leavitt, who returned from paid maternity leave about a month ago and has only briefed the press corps twice since returning.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

“I understand that his grandmother was a teacher and wanted him to perform well in school, and she was quite strict and demanding,” Anutin said after being briefed by investigators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

Before I left, I was briefed, instructed, directed, and brain-washed by many of my friends.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

“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

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

In a recorded online briefing, Dudley Council chief executive Balvinder Hera stressed residents should not return home until explicitly told they could do so.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Altaf Musani, the director of the WHO's humanitarian and disaster management unit, who presented the figures at a media briefing in Geneva, said accountability could take place not just at the national level.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

They arrived at Colonel Cathcart’s group too late to attend the preliminary briefing and hear Major Danby insist, “But it is there, I tell you. It’s there, it’s there.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller