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A fourth-down stop at the goal line gave San José State a brief respite from USC piling on points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

The economy experienced a brief upsurge in hiring in the first four months of 2026 before it petered out.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

These are very brief bursts of brain activity that can interrupt the normal sleep cycle without causing someone to become fully awake.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

The conversations were brief because we could not be seen speaking to anyone for long.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

And then a brief hug and Tess was gone, and I was left standing in the street, feeling emptier than I have ever felt.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

“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

He is expected to continue shepherding some of those briefs, though now without Kendall's leadership.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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

Supreme Court, national organizations joined us and filed amicus briefs urging the Court to rule in our favor.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Although Dorothy Parker tried her hand at plays and had a successful writing career in Hollywood—her screenplays included 1937’s “A Star is Born”—she excelled in briefer forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

The health secretary insisted 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

He harbored similar hopes for last November’s much briefer cease-fire, to no avail.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 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

After repeatedly warning of the rivers’ endangerment, however, Mr. Winder concludes with only the briefest summary of the projects currently aimed at guarding against the dire outcomes he foresees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Now, I have the strange romantic notion that, for the briefest of moments, Americans joined hands and celebrated 200 years of an unrealized but longed for dream: Liberty and justice for all.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 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

And though she had only had the briefest taste of what she would have to give up, she understood now why sages made that vow.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

Putin was briefed on the talks, Peskov said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Dozens of officers involved were briefed at a nearby police station before joining a convoy to Daniel's home.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Details of the proposed agreement emerged this week after Prime Minister Mark Carney briefed the leaders of Canada's provinces and territories.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Not all L3Harris board members were briefed on the 2023 complaint and it is unclear whether the matter was formally investigated, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

When I mentioned various aircraft he’d flown, the aircraft Dad had briefed me about, he grinned again and said, “Heck, I do believe we got an aviation expert on our hands.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

“Apple Intelligence is now finally launching two years late with the features that we said it was going to launch with,” said Dailey, the former Apple executive briefing leader.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Cook’s way of running things “was different than Steve, who was not a collaborator,” said Todd Dailey, who worked at Apple for over 20 years, ultimately as a leader in the executive briefing program.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

At a briefing last week, one senior official had said this year’s drills would be bigger than ever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

At a press briefing on Tuesday, WHO expert Thierno Balde described efforts to ramp up and decentralise the response to bring it closer to communities where the virus is spreading.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Colonel Cathcart inquired, after he had driven up for the full briefing with General Peckem and Colonel Scheisskopf.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller