briefed 1 of 2

adjective

as in instructed

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briefed

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verb

past tense of brief
1
as in informed
to give information to the lieutenant briefed his superior officers on the state of the enemy's fortifications

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2
as in summarized
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) his duties include briefing intelligence reports for the president

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Recent Examples of briefed
Adjective
Minutes later royal sources counter-briefed, clarifying that Harry had not formally accepted the invite in time, and that the offer had since been withdrawn. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 8 July 2026
Verb
Reuters — Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travelers were evacuated from parts of the facility. — CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026 Fox News Digital was briefed on the most current insights and data on Israel’s success rate in saving soldiers’ lives from a senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) medical specialist in battlefield medicine. — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026 That’s all before setting aside the time to manage a fantasy football roster, oversee a gambling hobby, or make sure you’re fully briefed for the next all-hands—sorry, hangout—at the bar. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026 The Emirates did not name the co-pilot, but two people briefed on the investigation and an Arab official identified him as an Omani man named Hamam al-Hammami. — Pranav Baskar, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 The suspect is Omani citizen Hamam al-Hammami, multiple sources from three agencies briefed on the investigation and a diplomat in the Middle East told NBC News. — Tom Winter, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2026 The president was asked by reporters at the White House whether he had been briefed about any links between the pilot behind the attack and Tehran. — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026 He was briefed on the operation beforehand, shared a common vocabulary with one of the co-conspirators, Solages, and received details in the aftermath. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026 Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, said he had been briefed by Netanyahu on Tuesday night but that Netanyahu did not mention anything or even hint at a potential hijacking plot. — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for briefed
  1. instructed
  2. informed
  3. summarized
  4. enlightened
  5. told
  6. outlined
  7. versed
  8. advised
Adjective
  • Prosecutors allege Maduro ordered political opponents detained and tortured, received regular updates on interrogations and instructed officials to intensify abuse.
    — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In July, President Lee Jae Myung, a liberal, instructed officials to explore ways to allow women to use the two-drug combination pack.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of instructed
Verb
  • Mandel’s work also informed a 2012 New York Times Magazine column on how the art market thrives on inequality, which argued that fine art belongs less to the broader global economy than to the peculiar economy of the very rich.
    — Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Regular two-way communication, where staff are heard, not just informed, combined with genuine empathy for the disruption, gives people something to hold onto.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of informed
Verb
  • The note summarized a cybercrime campaign in which three open-source AI agents allegedly worked together to breach at least 27 organizations and take more than 600,000 credit card records from two of them.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Each story gets summarized into a sentence or two accompanied by a link to the source for those seeking more information.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of summarized
Adjective
  • Back in 1964, even a relatively enlightened critic like Robert Shelton, who played a pivotal role in introducing Bob Dylan to a national audience three years before, was a Beatles skeptic.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Such questions, in fact, may not be the right ones to ask about the man variously described as a teacher, philosopher, maverick mystic, and enlightened person.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of enlightened
Verb
  • Others have been buried by the migrants themselves, but they won't be added to the official count until authorities can verify the bodies, Alexandre Coissac, IOM Chief of Mission in Djibouti, told the Associated Press via the phone.
    — JAMEY KEATEN, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Rahadian says he was drawn to a story of motherhood told through children whose mother was missing from their lives, set in a moment when a person’s citizenship could be taken away suddenly, by force and without warning.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of told
Verb
  • In his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in London, Sir Ken McCallum outlined the growing challenges facing the country, from hostile foreign governments and terrorism to the potential misuse of AI.
    — Tucker Reals, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Last month, Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok even outlined a possible bank run scenario caused by AI.
    — Hugh Son,Laya Neelakandan,Leslie Picker,Ritika Shah, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of outlined
Adjective
  • As viewers become more versed in analytics and, by extension, in-game decision-making, a market for another level of expertise in that realm is developing.
    — Mike Sando, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • However, Boise school officials are well versed in infectious disease trends.
    — Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of versed
Verb
  • Chen advised supervisors facing decision fatigue to review shots within their sequences rather than obsess over individual frames.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Risk climbs with the amount consumed, and women who drink are advised to limit intake to no more than one drink per day.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of advised

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“Briefed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/briefed. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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