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
The Comic Relief charity, set up in 1985, was the brainchild of filmmaker Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 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
Enlisting the aid of the beaver’s highly capable molars, the badger left him gnawing away at a yew sapling in the orchard while she went off to find an arrow that would fit her brainchild.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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