brainchild
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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
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 Cadiz project was the brainchild of British-born Keith Brackpool, who had a checkered record as an investment promoter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Pizza Hut was founded in 1958, the brainchild of two brothers in Wichita, Kansas.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
The spacecraft itself, the can that would take a man into space, was the brainchild of Dorothy Lee’s boss, Maxime Faget.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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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
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