brief success
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Spencer, 40, enjoyed brief success in the fourth round when a pair of right hands connected, but Mayer reasserted herself, closing the eighth with four powerful hooks and a wide points victory looked inevitable.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
It’s been a pattern of having some brief success, but not able to sustain it.
From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024
It definitely didn’t hurt when companies like Impossible and Beyond gained brief success in selling plant-based fake meat to aspiring vegetarians, or when the Biden administration approved lab-grown meat products for retail sale.
From Slate • May 9, 2024
Fans dazzled by Sampson’s brief success had trouble digesting the defeats.
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017
Alboni, among several of her well-established personations, was enabled to appear in a new opera by Auber, "Corbeille d'Oranges," a work which attained only a brief success.
From Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
