brainwork
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The game plays out in an open world of sorts, letting you explore a small town and gather information on a murder — although the detective elements are more about finding things on the map than using any actual brainwork.
From The Verge
That wasn’t supposed to happen; robots were supposed to supplant manual labor jobs, not professional brainwork.
From Scientific American
There is relief, intoxication, even temporary salvation in this kind of brainwork that so differs from the frontal lobe activities that dominate the rest of my day.
From Salon
An idea is neither the words that express it nor the brainwork that conceives it: These are only the vehicles that transport the immaterial thought into the material world.
But theoretical physics, while a necessary first step, leaves the real brainwork to practical application.
From The Guardian
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