brainchild

Lean was the brainchild of Leonardo de Moura, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research in the early 2000s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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 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

That was McCourt’s brainchild, back in 2018, and he’s a guy with lobbying muscle and friends in high places.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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

These brainchildren live in the space of abstract ideas, not in real space.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 11, 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

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

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