: an act or instance of giving precise instructions or essential information
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Other Israeli officials working outside of our city have referenced in background briefings a more wholesale recalibration of the entire Middle East.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in a briefing on March 6 that about 100,000 people in Lebanon are seeking refuge from attacks in shelters.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
Courts are deliberative places, where there are briefing schedules and hundreds of pages of evidentiary documents and lengthy rulings citing hundreds of years of case law.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
The body camera also captured what appears to be an officer providing a preliminary briefing to the South Padre Island police chief at the scene about a half hour after the incident.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in a briefing on March 6 that about 100,000 people in Lebanon are seeking refuge from attacks in shelters.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
Courts are deliberative places, where there are briefing schedules and hundreds of pages of evidentiary documents and lengthy rulings citing hundreds of years of case law.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
The body camera also captured what appears to be an officer providing a preliminary briefing to the South Padre Island police chief at the scene about a half hour after the incident.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
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“Briefing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/briefing. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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