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brainchild

[brayn-chahyld] / ˈbreɪnˌtʃaɪld /


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Semafor reported the agreement was the brainchild of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, who pitched in with a draft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

And with Fielder as the film’s brainchild, Holmes as its complex subject, and a three-hour runtime, even a nomination would be exactly the kind of genre-and-expectation-defying push the Oscars is seeking in an uncertain future.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

It’s the brainchild of clinical herbalist Adriana Ayales, who grew up in Costa Rica with a background in rainforest herbalism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The strategy is the brainchild of Abby Tomlinson, who ran Burnham's digital communications during the by-election, and who the BBC can confirm has been kept on for a new role in Burnham's administration.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

But this place is the brainchild of a bunch of Survivalists, built on a dream of pre-war America, which is how I know that my next words will change everything.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

All his life he was given to intense periods of noodling, forswearing meals, sleeping at his desk, testing and retesting his ideas, and shepherding his favored brainchildren to manufacture, marketability and profit.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019

Fiasco is but one of many actor-driven companies that have been the brainchildren of Master of Fine Arts graduates.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2015

The public figure Jobs is a symbol for the technology with which we have a relationship, making his death meaningful to all who love his brainchildren.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2011

All of them were the brainchildren of Jobs, a technologist whose relentless perfectionism and long experience helped set the technology agenda for decades.

From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 8, 2011

Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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