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brain up

British  

verb

  1. to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated

    we need to brain up the curriculum

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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