brainstorm
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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
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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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Expository Writing, List 1
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