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  • proper noun A surname.

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Examples

  • Brill is known for his New Yorker piece on "Rubber Rooms," where scores of New York City schoolteachers who have been accused of misconduct or incompetence sit and are paid full-time until their cases can be processed -- the average wait, he found, was three years.

    Randi Weingarten, Steven Brill Face Off Over Education Reform The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont.

    Man in the Dark by Paul Auster: Book summary 2010

  • In fact, that quote appeared further down in Brill's piece and should have been attributed to Anthony Lombardi.

    Randi Weingarten, Steven Brill Face Off Over Education Reform The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The idea, said Brill, is to allow anyone with a good idea to bring it to fruition: “Going through airport security is one of the most frustrating experiences we all share, so we figured there must be lots of people out there with good ideas, who may be hesitant to try to sell their product to the government.”

    What Do DVD Rentals and Airport Security Have In Common? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The idea, said Brill, is to allow anyone with a good idea to bring it to fruition: “Going through airport security is one of the most frustrating experiences we all share, so we figured there must be lots of people out there with good ideas, who may be hesitant to try to sell their product to the government.”

    What Do DVD Rentals and Airport Security Have In Common? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • But Brill is completely lost when it comes to pulling off sincerity, much less attempt to seamlessly mix it with another sensibility.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002

  • I called Brill and had her go get everybody who was in the stasis field, set them up with the remainder of her platoon as a defensive line circling around the northeast and THE FOREVER WAR northwest quadrants.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • I called Brill and had her go get everybody who was in the stasis field, set them up with the remainder of her platoon as a defensive fine circling around the northeast and northwest quadrants.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • The word Brill, by a happy chance, signifies spectacles, and a couplet was sung to the effect that

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

  • Alex Brill is a research fellow and Chad Hill is a Jacobs Associate at the American Enterprise Institute.

    Tax Breaks For The Wealthy Do Boost Economy Alex Brill 2010

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  • brill is the short form of the word "Brilliant"

    June 15, 2009