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brain

[breyn] / breɪn /




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Further inspiration was found in the pool by in the shape of Archie Goodburn, who is fighting brain cancer.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

A concertgoer died after suffering a reported brain injury at the Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach last weekend.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

"I feel like my brain is working in slow motion, I tend to become clumsy and way more forgetful," she says.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

He has also survived health scares, notably a fall in his bathroom in 2024 that caused a brain bleed.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

The 10 billion neurons in your brain are not connected at random.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Through 2022, the Boston University CTE Center studied the brains of 376 former NFL players and diagnosed 345 with CTE, a rate of 91.7%.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

He argues that, as natural selection has shaped our brains and influenced our actions, the way we guide and govern behavior should be approached with our evolutionary roots in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The team plan to run workshops and structured interviews with at least 45 anglers to pick their brains about the local ecology and size of sharks caught in the past.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

The explosion in resource-hungry data centres -- housing the hardware "brains" of artificial intelligence -- is fuelling unease worldwide, with New York State and Australia the latest jurisdictions to announce new rules.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

The finest astronomers and astrologers—Thomas Digges in England, Francesco Maurolico in Italy, Tadeàš Hàjek in Prague—racked their brains in an attempt to work out what this might portend and hastened to publish their conflicting conclusions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That way, it won’t turn into a brained brick because of a human error somewhere in northern Virginia.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2025

Hours before or after they passed, another member of the human family, likely the smaller brained, big-jawed Paranthropus, hurried along the same shoreline.

From Science Magazine Nov. 27, 2024

They found that the larger brained primate species did not solve the fruit-finding puzzle more efficiently than smaller brained mammals.

From Science Daily May 28, 2024

Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2022

No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Théo is at home—he went to tell his mother," Joyselle said, nearly braining an old lady with his violin-case as he swung round to speak.

From The Halo by Justice, B. Martin

"And for well-nigh braining an officer of his Majesty's infantry!" said old Major Elliott, putting his head over the hedge.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

They succeed; but not without difficulty, and a free handling of handspikes—almost braining the apes before they consent to relinquish it.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne




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