brainchild

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Lichtenberg’s job is the brainchild of Editor in Chief and Chief Content Officer Alyson Shontell, who joined Fortune in 2021 from Business Insider.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

And this isn’t the first time that Charles Dow’s brainchild has fallen out of favor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 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 visit was the brainchild of Mrs. Marie Mattingly Meloney, a New York socialite and magazine entrepreneur who had been shocked to learn that Madame Curies research was hobbled by a meager supply of radium.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik