Brief
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Common collocations
| men | brief men | reduce men |
Both words in one sentence
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Outside of three stinging but very brief recessions, Eisenhowers two terms oversaw a period of excellent economic outgrowth, and he managed to significantly reduce federal deficits.
- Episode "The Stolen Earth", Paul O'Grady made a brief appearance, making bad jokes about the situation (though this may have been a very deliberate attempt to reduce panic rather than him acting of his own accord).
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The alien death rays in the Young Justice episode "Failsafe" reduce those shot (y'know, like Batman, Green Lantern, the teenage heroes of the show...) into skeletons for a brief but memorable second before disintegrating the skeletons, too.
Source: Stripped to the Bone
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