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Even without the federal subsidies, the used EV market has been brisk — thanks largely to the spike in gas prices, as my colleague Caroline Petrow-Cohen has reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The much more autumnal look to the weather charts at the moment is down to a particularly brisk and straight jet stream roaring through the skies across the Atlantic.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Some of the rain could be heavy with a chance of thunder and lightning and will be accompanied by brisk south-westerly winds.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Chow, 41, is a Cambridge-educated lawyer who represented herself at the trial, speaking at a brisk pace and responding to questions quickly.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

The brisk air of spring did not dispel the stench of engine oil and festering wounds.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

While heatwave conditions will continue across many parts of England and Wales through this coming week, a brisker wind means temperatures have dropped a degree or two relative to recent days.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

We would be in a better place if the speed had been brisker.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2023

After stripping out food and fuel, which can be volatile from month to month, prices increased by 5.1 percent over the past year, a brisker increase than the 4.9 percent in the year through August.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

One morning there was a different smell in the air, and the ship was moving oddly, with a brisker rocking from side to side instead of the plunging and soaring.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly accelerated in August to the briskest pace since April and firms reported input price pressures eased to the lowest since late 2020.

From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2022

The planets are putting on an amazing celestial show nightly, and many regions of the country are about to host some of the briskest bird traffic of the year.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

Ms. Mearns, never rushed by this, creates marvelous dynamic variety within it, often finding time to phrase with seeming slowness, while rising to its briskest passages as if riding the full power of a wave.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

British factories followed Asia's lead, increasing activity at the fastest rate in seven months while creating new jobs in at the briskest pace in more than three years.

From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2014

Put three of our best horses under three of our briskest lads and let them ride with all speed to tell our people to come quickly to our relief.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Amelia and me took a turn by ourselves, and when we got back to Teesdale's farm, there was Jenny, wonderfully brisked up, talking and laughing away with young Wheeler, whose father keeps the post-office.

From In Homespun by E. (Edith) Nesbit

As I brisked out of bed the following morning at half-after six, I could not but wonder rather nervously what the day might have in store for me.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

It is all the best-humoured affair imaginable, refreshingly full of country airs and brisked up with a fine flavour of romance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 by Various

Now, however, she brisked up, and insisted upon hearing the whole story.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

She brisked and sparkled—the years fell off from her—she started off looking fairly girlish in her hope and enthusiasm.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Such a charming musical evening—such a treat!" said she, brisking up, and quite unaware of what had been passing round her the last two hours.

From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

As I write, the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam, and shutters; a strong draught sweeps round the balcony; it looks doubtful for to-morrow.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

As I write the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam: and shutters; a strong draught sweeps round the balcony; it looks doubtful for to-morrow.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson

“He wandered off by himself,” Major Coote answered, brisking up a little.

From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward

She was relieved to see that the oddly assorted men and women about her were brisking up, and beginning to talk, even to laugh, with one another.

From From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes