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no-brainer

[noh-brey-ner] / ˈnoʊˈbreɪ nər /


NOUN
high road
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NOUN
kid stuff
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Also a no-brainer for Nolan was his choice of Matt Damon, who’d had a key role in “Interstellar” and was hard-nosed master builder Gen. Leslie Groves in “Oppenheimer,” to play Odysseus.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026

If it’s 6%, then it’s a no-brainer to say you should consider at least bumping up your contributions by 1 percentage point so that you don’t leave free money on the table.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

"A no-brainer," he said when asked why he decided to rest so many.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026

“It’s a bit of a no-brainer, isn’t it?” said Rob Dickinson, Singer’s founder and executive chairman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

That evolution should select for larger brains may seem to us like, well, a no-brainer.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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