brainchild
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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
Carney’s brainchild barely registered, in part because he floated it the same week of August 2019 that news broke of another outrageous proposal that at first seemed like a joke: Trump wanted to buy Greenland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The brainchild of sawmill business partners Franz Josef Bucher and Josef Durrer, the Grand Hotel opened in 1873.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
He’s the brainchild behind my favorite dish, the Fuhgeddaboudit pizza, which is made with pastrami, pickles and mustard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
The first Macintosh computer was Raskin’s brainchild, though Jobs ultimately got much of the credit for it.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
These brainchildren live in the space of abstract ideas, not in real space.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 11, 2021
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
Fiasco is but one of many actor-driven companies that have been the brainchildren of Master of Fine Arts graduates.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2015
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
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
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