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Brainerd

[ brey-nerd ]

noun

  1. a city in central Minnesota.


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Women have been central to every “Fargo” tale since the 1996 movie, when Frances McDormand’s Marge Gunderson unravels a grisly series of crimes in Brainerd, Minn., while being seven months pregnant and barely calling attention to that state.

From Salon

Ol’ reliable Norm will always be there to support her, but perhaps Brainerd, Minn., and its brown-gray buffet casseroles aren’t enough for a sheriff of her impeccable instincts.

“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.

BRAINERD: He would make a model chief of police were it not for his one known weakness — graft.

The legal team has argued that Burke should have removed juror Amanda Brainerd from the pool because of the content of her debut novel, “Age of Consent,” which was published last year and tackled themes of sex and “predatory older men,” according to a description on the author’s website.

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