brains
- acumen n.
- astuteness n.
- authority n.
- brainpower n.
- capacity n.
- cleverness n.
- erudition n.
- gray matter n.
- head n.
- ingenuity n.
- intellect n.
- intelligence n.
- judgment n.
- mentality n.
- mind n.
- official n.
- profundity n.
- reason n.
- ringleader n.
- sagaciousness n.
- sagacity n.
- sageness n.
- sense n.
- smarts n.
- variety meat n.
- wisdom n.
- wit/wits n.
Example Sentences
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But stunningly high numbers of women report having intrusive thoughts about harming their children—moments when their own brains betray them, when it’s clear that none of us are in total control over our own minds.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Improving robotic brains is one of the key ways that the recent wave of humanoid firms can make their robots actually useful.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
They found that around 95% of the cells are shared between the male and female fly brains.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
If engineers can reproduce some of this built-in neural organization in artificial intelligence, they may be able to create systems that learn more like biological brains and require far less training data and energy.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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