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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

“Something had to happen with the evolution of their lung ventilation system in order for them to become these elongated, small-headed animals that eat big meals,” 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

But he brought, like other young desperadoes, his first novel with him; and he had approached the junior partner of the famous old house of Ingham and Son with letters from mutual friends in Brainerd.

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

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