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brainstorm

[breyn-stawrm] / ˈbreɪnˌstɔrm /


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This summer her budget is £500, and she sits down with her children to discuss how much they have budgeted and to brainstorm activities they can do together.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

They didn’t get to figure out that they wanted a horn section or brainstorm on what visuals, lighting and pyrotechnics would add to their show.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

Some creatives say the AI tools help them brainstorm or illustrate bold ideas on a budget.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

She recalled a recent session in which she used Anthropic’s Claude to brainstorm for an hour and a half, then asked it to summarize the conversation in a document.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

“So, just to do a quick brainstorm here, every club should have some themes, and I know you two have already been thinking about this. So tell me more about your ideas.”

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

The world will be a better place when statesmen and their cronies routinely submit their strategic brainstorms to an LLM, free of wishful thinking or tunnel vision.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Researchers are just beginning to test some of the ideas generated by these brainstorms.

From Scientific American Jul. 18, 2023

The stagy devices give the impression of notions that may have seemed like brainstorms in rehearsal but in performance feel overly artificial.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

David, the mission commander, brainstorms: “If we could somehow redirect the pressure from one of the back up generators into a J-cell unit with enough force,” he muses.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2021

I picture Grandma weaving the threads together, humming and chuckling while she brainstorms the next mind-bending story she’s going to tell me about Ghana.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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