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Brainerd

American  
[brey-nerd] / ˈbreɪ nərd /

noun

  1. a city in central Minnesota.


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Ayers graduated in 1939 from the Brainerd Institute high school, established in 1866 for the children of freed slaves in her hometown.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

“These behaviors that look kind of silly are generating these really useful water flows,” says Elizabeth Brainerd, a functional morphologist at Brown University who was not involved with the work.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2023

“Basically snakes are all ribs,” Dr. Brainerd said.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022

Similar sites have already been set up at nursing homes in Brainerd and Shakopee to create additional transitional care beds, which are in short supply.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2021

Brainerd has one steam saw mill with a capacity of 12,000,000 feet per annum, another with a capacity of 3,000,000 feet, and many fine business blocks and tasteful residences.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman