brainchild
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It was the brainchild of Abby Tomlinson, a 17-year-old sixth-form student, who came to the defence of the man she called "Milibae".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
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 strategy is the brainchild of Abby Tomlinson, who ran Burnham's digital communications during the by-election, and who the BBC can confirm has been kept on for a new role in Burnham's administration.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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 Christian Union is the brainchild of forty-year-old Matt Bennett, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Cornell and later directed the Campus Crusade for Christ at Princeton.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
The mall and the amusement park, known as Magic Kass, are the brainchildren of Hanoch Kass, the owner of Kass Group, a real estate and land development company.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2021
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 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
