brainchild
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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
The Cadiz project was the brainchild of British-born Keith Brackpool, who had a checkered record as an investment promoter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The diet is the brainchild of Dr. Sean O’Mara, who advises his high-profile patients to eat fermented foods such as sauerkraut and kimchi, alongside grass-fed steak—and to abstain from alcohol and sugary food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
It's the brainchild of Jo Mason, a City of London banker who tired of counterfeit profiles on dating sites.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
But this place is the brainchild of a bunch of Survivalists, built on a dream of pre-war America, which is how I know that my next words will change everything.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
The public figure Jobs is a symbol for the technology with which we have a relationship, making his death meaningful to all who love his brainchildren.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2011
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
Founded by Michael Young, the serial social entrepreneur whose brainchildren also include ’s Open University and The Consumer Association, the School for Social Entrepreneurs offers training and support to all kinds of potential social innovators.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 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
