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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

“They do this for 10, 15, up to 45 minutes,” said Elizabeth Brainerd, an evolutionary biologist at Brown University.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022

The owner of the drawing was friends with Brainerd Phillipson, who runs a rare-book shop in Holliston, Massachusetts.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

This road has a branch from Brainerd to St. Paul.

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