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brainstorm

[breyn-stawrm] / ˈbreɪnˌstɔrm /


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They didn’t get to figure out that they wanted a horn section or brainstorm on what visuals, lighting and pyrotechnics would add to their show.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

"I did my research and then started to kind of brainstorm what those ideas could be and how I could integrate my own musicality into the pre-existing world of Devil Wears Prada."

From BBC May 1, 2026

She recalled a recent session in which she used Anthropic’s Claude to brainstorm for an hour and a half, then asked it to summarize the conversation in a document.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

It can serve as a place to brainstorm or even draft an early version of a press release “as long as there is a significant, significant editing process,” he says.

From Barron's Apr. 14, 2026

Borgenicht s great brainstorm that day on the upturned box, then, did not come from nowhere.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Here are some of the brainstorms they wished for.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Researchers are just beginning to test some of the ideas generated by these brainstorms.

From Scientific American Jul. 18, 2023

The stagy devices give the impression of notions that may have seemed like brainstorms in rehearsal but in performance feel overly artificial.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

David, the mission commander, brainstorms: “If we could somehow redirect the pressure from one of the back up generators into a J-cell unit with enough force,” he muses.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2021

I picture Grandma weaving the threads together, humming and chuckling while she brainstorms the next mind-bending story she’s going to tell me about Ghana.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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