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[breyn] / breɪn /




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That stuck in my brain forever, and it never, never left my brain.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

The end result is a film that’s an emotionally resonant look inside an artist’s brain.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

The researchers argue that its evolutionary remains survive today as the pineal gland, a small organ located deep within the vertebrate brain.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

This has led scientists to focus more closely on how brain cells react to these abnormal proteins, rather than simply measuring how much pathology is present.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Your internal organs, especially the brain and heart, need a constant core temperature to function.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Yet there is, to date, little evidence-based guidance on effective interventions for kids whose brains work differently.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Among the waste products the system clears are proteins called amyloid and tau, the deposits that accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

The explosion in resource-hungry data centres -- housing the hardware "brains" of artificial intelligence -- is fuelling unease worldwide, with New York State and Australia the latest jurisdictions to announce new rules.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

But the genre also requires action, adventure, enlightenment, struggle, the guest-host relationship observed by the ancients and the supremacy of brains over brawn.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Ah, young sir, the Szekelys—and the Dracula as their heart’s blood, their brains, and their swords—can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

They found that the larger brained primate species did not solve the fruit-finding puzzle more efficiently than smaller brained mammals.

From Science Daily May 28, 2024

Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2022

At least there’s nothing pointy on the Steam Deck, unlike some of the book corners I’ve brained myself with over the years.

From The Verge Mar. 29, 2022

A second major find, the nearly complete skull of a larger brained hominid, long known simply by its field number “1470” and now classified as H. rudolfensis, bolstered that point.

From Science Magazine Jan. 2, 2022

Raizel and I scooted out of the way to avoid being brained by one.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred

Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Both men ducked instinctively, to escape a braining.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

"And for well-nigh braining an officer of his Majesty's infantry!" said old Major Elliott, putting his head over the hedge.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir




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