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Just as brief? Not these days! (2,6)

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I believe the answer is:

no longer

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'just' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adverbs. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'brief? not these days' is the wordplay.
'brief?' means to remove the last letter (a shorter or briefer version of the word).
'these days' becomes 'longer' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'not' with its final letter removed is 'no'.
'no'+'longer'='NO LONGER'

'as' is the link.

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(Other definitions for no longer that I've seen before include "Not as formerly" , "a person without yearnings?" , "One not disposed to pining" , "Someone who doesn't dream" .)

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