brainchild
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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 tie-up is the brainchild of UniCredit Chief Executive Andrea Orcel, a former dealmaker best known for matchmaking among the world’s largest financial institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The parade is the brainchild of Deitch, who staged similar events in New York’s SoHo between 2005 and 2008, drawing on Carnival traditions and Berlin’s Love Parade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
It's the brainchild of Jo Mason, a City of London banker who tired of counterfeit profiles on dating sites.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
The Aeron chair was the brainchild of two well-known industrial designers, Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
The three megaprojects are the brainchildren of the 32-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who has proposed sweeping reforms aimed at diversifying the economy away from oil and opening up Saudi society.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2017
The public figure Jobs is a symbol for the technology with which we have a relationship, making his death meaningful to all who love his brainchildren.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2011
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
