brainchild
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Executives hope Niles, the brainchild of Crocs Inc. Chief Brand Officer Terence Reilly, will boost sales and cultural cachet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The law change for a red card was the brainchild of Fifa president Infantino, who wanted something which would have "a deterrent effect" at the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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
The brainchild of sawmill business partners Franz Josef Bucher and Josef Durrer, the Grand Hotel opened in 1873.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 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
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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
Fiasco is but one of many actor-driven companies that have been the brainchildren of Master of Fine Arts graduates.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2015
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
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