brain up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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In Doctor Who almost every week there was a new monster to scare you as a child and it just fired my creative brain up.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2022
As Western Spirit co-owner Ashley Korenblat tells me later, fully untethering “frees your brain up to think instead of lurching from crisis to crisis.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2020
Hooking a brain up directly to electronics is not new.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2020
Hooking a brain up directly to electronics is not new.
From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2020
And the check—it was a clutch at the heart that brought her brain up staggering—came entirely from the outside, from the uttermost rim of her circle, from Mabel Brodrick.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
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