brainchild
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Lean was the brainchild of Leonardo de Moura, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research in the early 2000s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
It’s the brainchild of clinical herbalist Adriana Ayales, who grew up in Costa Rica with a background in rainforest herbalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The law change for a red card was the brainchild of Fifa president Infantino, who wanted something which would have "a deterrent effect" at the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Closing the border between East and West Berlin was not the idea of the KGB, the Soviet army, or anyone in the Kremlin: It was the brainchild of Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's hard-line communist leader.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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