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  • adjective comparative form of brief: more brief
  • noun One who provides a briefing

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Examples

  • Displayed on the immense luminous wall screen behind the briefer was a planform depiction of the planetary system.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • What happens in the presidential daily briefing is that the president asks questions of the briefer, which is usually Tenet on Monday through Friday.

    truckeratlas Diary Entry truckeratlas 2004

  • I mean, this is the toughest it's been in my sixteen years here, and it's not merely that as Tom says, it's a small group and Secretary Rumsfeld has really become the daily briefer, which is kind of bizarre for the Secretary of Defense.

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001 2001

  • The briefing is on the record and your briefer is our Ambassador to the Philippines, Tom Hubbard.

    Ambassador To Philippines Hubbard Briefing In Manila ITY National Archives 1996

  • It is at least as likely, if not more so, that the briefer is the earlier, rather than the fuller.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • "While we were talking a briefer from the National Security Council came in, and I excused myself," Axelrod recalled.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News 2011

  • I offer her another smile, this one briefer, warmer.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • That – combined with the fact that we blow through these massive AAA titles in much briefer time periods somehow these days – means that game music leaves less of an impression than it used to, I think.

    Archive 2009-09-01 SVGL 2009

  • That – combined with the fact that we blow through these massive AAA titles in much briefer time periods somehow these days – means that game music leaves less of an impression than it used to, I think.

    Music Sweet Music SVGL 2009

  • But to give this project its greatest possible effect, he has one more book to write: a briefer account that ties together an argument now presented in 800 pages and that avoids the few topics about which Mr. Pinker has not done careful research.

    Burying the Hatchet James Q. Wilson 2011

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