brainchild
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“We really didn’t feel the need to reinvent the place,” Whiteman said, adding one bombastic exception: The Greatest Bar on Earth, which had been Baum’s brainchild.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
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 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 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
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
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
Founded by Michael Young, the serial social entrepreneur whose brainchildren also include ’s Open University and The Consumer Association, the School for Social Entrepreneurs offers training and support to all kinds of potential social innovators.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 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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