How native speakers pronounce “brief”

We listen with the intent to reply." One more rule, number 10, and it’s this one: Be brief. Be interested in other people.

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Five years earlier, I gave birth to my daughter, and when I returned from my very brief 12-week maternity leave, I expected everything to be just as I'd left it.

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We have one final question we'd like to bring up from the audience, that we'll have to keep brief. So let's bring that up.

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that sociologists call "fleeting intimacy." So, it's a brief experience that has emotional resonance and meaning. It's the good feeling I got

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Rare is an exchange: a smile of brief, wry recognition. You are the new kid on the block.

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We can create new ways of living well together if we use these brief openings for change. The story of technology and democracy is far from over.

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