The phrase "actually brief" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is indeed short or concise, often in contrast to expectations.
Example: "I expected the meeting to be long, but it was actually brief, lasting only 30 minutes."
Alternatives: "truly short" or "genuinely concise."
Vince Carter, the last player left on the court, was actually briefed on the day's circus by a team official before he spoke.
According to Salesforce, the original judges (which included TechCrunch's Alex Williams) were not actually briefed on the more granular pre-existing code policy.
I was actually briefed by Twilio over an iOS conference call app powered by the SDK (very cool), but the real fun begins when developers start surprising us with VoIP apps too crazy or disruptive to predict.
The White House has tied itself in knots over whether to admit the president was actually briefed on what she was saying, but it can hardly be said that it gave the US some amazing advantage in the bilateral relationship with Germany.
I carry no brief for Pelosi, and Pelosi could indeed be misrepresenting what CIA actually briefed to her, even though the additional questions about its briefing schedule are numerous.
I feel like a fourth grader proudly racing through the times table at the front of the class, or more accurately, being called on in law school to explain a case on one of those rare occasions where I had actually briefed it the day before.
Even the iconic stuff from Genesis is actually fleetingly brief.
(Actually, Mr. Brief did not say "idiot". He used an earthy Yiddish word that is evocative of what he calls "the voice" of the Daffy's campaign).
It is actually a brief in his own self-defense, a visual metaphor in which his critics, not his racialist acolytes, are in need of a lesson in tolerance.
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