brainchild
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The brainchild of French interior designer Jacques Grange, an area regular for 30 years, the development spans 35 hillside acres overlooking the Atlantic and Carvalhal’s rice fields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
It has been running for five years and is the brainchild of Peter Kelly, an English teacher at the school.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The diet is the brainchild of Dr. Sean O’Mara, who advises his high-profile patients to eat fermented foods such as sauerkraut and kimchi, alongside grass-fed steak—and to abstain from alcohol and sugary food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The spacecraft itself, the can that would take a man into space, was the brainchild of Dorothy Lee’s boss, Maxime Faget.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The mall and the amusement park, known as Magic Kass, are the brainchildren of Hanoch Kass, the owner of Kass Group, a real estate and land development company.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2021
These brainchildren live in the space of abstract ideas, not in real space.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 11, 2021
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
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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