brainchild

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Sora was the brainchild of Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles, two researchers who became close friends while completing doctorate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

To some, it reflected poorly on Rosenior, but it was the brainchild of James himself under influence from former Wigan Warriors rugby league player Willie Isa, who is effectively the squad's mentality coach.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Coco’s is the brainchild of Edmond Safra, one of the building’s owners and a nephew of the late billionaire financier Edmond J. Safra.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

The app, which has 285,000 users, is the brainchild of attorney and computer scientist Jazz Hampton and his team who created it after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

The upgrade was the brainchild of the eminent astronomer George Ellery Hale.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik