Meaning of “briefly” in the English Dictionary

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"briefly" in English

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uk /ˈbriːf.li/ us /ˈbriːf.li/

B1 for a short time:

We chatted briefly about the weather.

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She appears briefly in the new Bond film.
He was briefly famous in his twenties but then sank into obscurity.
He appears briefly towards the end of the film in a cameo role as a priest.
She worked briefly as a journalist, but attracted attention as a writer with her stories of village life.
He made his living briefly as a newspaper reporter before getting into politics.

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(Definition of “briefly” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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(Definition of “briefly” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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