brain-picking
noun
the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
brain-picker
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a word derived from
brain-picking.
Example Sentences
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His critics insist that he is too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marshall will listen so avidly to his colleagues' scholarship that he has been called a brain-picker, but he trades jokes with no man.
From Time Magazine Archive
