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brain

[breyn] / breɪn /




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"Overall, you're talking about 3% of people will get a brain infection complication and 97% of people will have either no symptoms or have this relatively short-lived, albeit unpleasant, severe flu-like phase," he said.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

When it’s not scorching or flooding or burning outside, it’s a nice time to just turn off your brain and relax.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

The difficulty remains securing enough logic chips, the brain inside Apple’s devices, that are made by Taiwan Semiconductor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

It is linked to repeated head impacts and traumatic brain injuries, and has been found posthumously in numerous athletes in contact sports.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Their brain injuries usually follow surgery to remove a tumor from deep inside the frontal cortex.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Yet there is, to date, little evidence-based guidance on effective interventions for kids whose brains work differently.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

This idea proposes that the evolution of larger human brains occurred alongside changes that made the human skeleton less robust and more physically feminine compared with those of earlier ancestors.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

But the genre also requires action, adventure, enlightenment, struggle, the guest-host relationship observed by the ancients and the supremacy of brains over brawn.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

For now, there is a lack of large-scale, long-term studies to judge the true impact of the new technology on human brains, researchers agreed.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Limbs, torsos, brains, eyes, faces—even temperaments or propensities that were inherited—had to be created anew each time an embryo unfurled into a human fetus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Hours before or after they passed, another member of the human family, likely the smaller brained, big-jawed Paranthropus, hurried along the same shoreline.

From Science Magazine Nov. 27, 2024

Larger brained animals could use their intelligence to find fruit more efficiently, which in turn provided more energy to fuel a larger brain.

From Science Daily May 28, 2024

Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2022

At least there’s nothing pointy on the Steam Deck, unlike some of the book corners I’ve brained myself with over the years.

From The Verge Mar. 29, 2022

No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

"Théo is at home—he went to tell his mother," Joyselle said, nearly braining an old lady with his violin-case as he swung round to speak.

From The Halo by Justice, B. Martin

"And for well-nigh braining an officer of his Majesty's infantry!" said old Major Elliott, putting his head over the hedge.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Early after breakfast on that morning,—that morning on which Tappitt had for a moment thought of braining Luke Rowan with the poker,—Mrs. Ray started from the cottage on her mission into Baslehurst.

From Rachel Ray by Trollope, Anthony




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