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A top spokesperson for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left her administration Monday after a brief tenure, joining a growing list of communications aides who have departed over the last nine months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

But it could only be a brief cool down because high pressure is currently forecast to build back over the UK again next week.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

During the session, selling was intense enough to warrant brief halting of trade.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Graham’s office said the senator died after a brief and sudden illness Saturday evening, but declined to elaborate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

The evening’s activity had to be kept brief because the city now had electricity only a short while each night, and candles had to be hoarded for emergencies.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

They generally have the luxury of hearing the parties’ arguments at length and on their own timeline—with months if not years to review evidence and briefs and consider motions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Ticket Exchange, set up by Edinburgh fan Carey McEvoy, says Scotland fans can swap and sell World Cup briefs without "obnoxious" resale mark-ups.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

I wonder how many pairs of Hanes briefs did Charlie sell at this very spot?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

Speaking to the BBC, he said he was "not challenging the prime minister" adding: "I'm not doing any of the things some silly briefer said overnight."

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

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

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

"None of this is beer-proof let alone waterproof," says Prof Damian Bailey, with only the briefest flicker of somebody regretting their life choices.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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

But there isn’t even the briefest of celebrations for this achievement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Jairo leaned back on his heels and allowed his eyes to close for just the briefest of moments.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Dozens of legislators, staff and agency personnel have already been briefed on the latest research, and Boerner said she’s putting together a working group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Markwayne Mullin and White House officials have been briefed on the inquiry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

President Gerald Ford was on vacation in Vail, Colorado, but an adviser briefed the new White House chief of staff, Dick Cheney.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Jarvis told BBC Newsnight that he had discussed the investment plan with Burnham, but it's understood he couldn't be briefed on certain security issues and did not sign off the full thing.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

He had briefed the staff in the laboratory on Leesburg Pike—which had been handling monkey blood and tissue samples— about the need to handle these specimens as if they were infected with the aids virus.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The human rights charity now says the briefing was uploaded without going through the normal checks, and it has been temporarily withdrawn while an internal review takes place.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“I think this is what Lindsey would’ve wanted,” she said at a news briefing Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

In a July 2 press briefing, he said, “We have received no information. No updates. If there has been any direct outreach I am unaware of it. I don’t want to speculate about anybody’s health.”

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

At the briefing, Warsh stressed the importance of price stability and significantly limited the practice of providing forward guidance previously used to signal officials’ next steps on rate policy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 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