Example Sentences

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“They are looking to get funding from as many different places as they can, so they can thrive,” Brill said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

NewsGuard’s founders are the decidedly liberal Steven Brill of American Lawyer magazine and the conservative former Wall Street Journal publisher and columnist L. Gordon Crovitz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Christopher Mowod can’t quite endow this “sad man in a blanket,” as Simon dubs his bundled-up bandmate, with the same level of fey madness that Brill was able to entertainingly supply.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

There was a leading role as Edward "Brill" Lyle, the computer genius in the 1998 film, Enemy of the State, where he starred alongside Will Smith in a frightening tale of government surveillance.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

For the first time I noticed it wasn’t Brill, it was the second-string quarterback.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli