Examples

"she visited him briefly" "was briefly associated with IBM"

Used in print

Briefly we rolled over a paved road up_to Pak_Song , on the cool Bolovens_Plateau .

Hitching his cartridge_belt around , Pat glanced upward briefly at the Palace and started that way with Cobb at his side .

Cursing himself for having ridden out the last few days without a rifle in his saddle boot , Russ drew his Colt and examined it briefly .

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Synonyms

in_short in_brief shortly concisely

Examples

"the history is summed up concisely in this book" "she replied briefly" "briefly, we have a problem" "to put it shortly"

Used in print

When I try to work_out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance , I come_up with the following ideas , which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay .

The observations of Mayer , McCullough , and Sloanaker at 3.15 cm and of Sloanaker at 10.3 cm have not previously been published and will be briefly described .

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present , this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical_chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces .

We are reporting these investigations here briefly because of their relevancy to problems of the study of apparently simple exchange reactions of chlorine and because the results furnish some information on the activation_energy for abstraction of chlorine atoms from carbon_tetrachloride .

The random_variable X takes the values * * f with probabilities * * f or , more briefly * * f .

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