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
Melton said it pains him to raze the downtown convention center, built in 1981, because it was the brainchild of the city’s first Black mayor, Richard Hatcher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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 Aeron chair was the brainchild of two well-known industrial designers, Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
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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