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brainstorm

[brayn-stawrm] / ˈbreɪnˌstɔrm /


NOUN
inspiration, brainwave
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For example, Mwedziwendira uses AI to brainstorm how to structure weekly priorities and create spreadsheets for her tasks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

This summer her budget is £500, and she sits down with her children to discuss how much they have budgeted and to brainstorm activities they can do together.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

I find it helpful to brainstorm a week’s worth of meal ideas that call for rotisserie chicken in preparation for bringing a whole bird home.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

Spiegel says they brainstorm ideas for actors and themes based on what’s in the zeitgeist, tying the stories to specific moments in pop culture, then sprinkling in some evergreen stories throughout the year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

I type up what I wrote in my notebook and then edit and brainstorm and cut and replace.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The world will be a better place when statesmen and their cronies routinely submit their strategic brainstorms to an LLM, free of wishful thinking or tunnel vision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

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

From Scientific American ● Jul. 18, 2023

Text-to-image models like DALL-E work for visual brainstorms, as well, noted Curran.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023

Glimcher added that it was getting difficult to tell his father that there was no room for his brainstorms.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022

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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