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brainchild

[breyn-chahyld] / ˈbreɪnˌtʃaɪld /


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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

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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