brainchild
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Goldfish were the brainchild of Oscar Kambly, a Swiss baker who created the cracker in 1958 as a birthday gift for his wife—a Pisces—whose astrological sign was a fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
And with Fielder as the film’s brainchild, Holmes as its complex subject, and a three-hour runtime, even a nomination would be exactly the kind of genre-and-expectation-defying push the Oscars is seeking in an uncertain future.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s the brainchild of clinical herbalist Adriana Ayales, who grew up in Costa Rica with a background in rainforest herbalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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 idea of a mass of blacks marching on Washington was originally the brainchild of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ A. Philip Randolph.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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 three megaprojects are the brainchildren of the 32-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who has proposed sweeping reforms aimed at diversifying the economy away from oil and opening up Saudi society.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2017
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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