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  a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television

Brains Trust

American  

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. brain trust.

2. a panel of experts on radio or television, giving impromptu answers to selected questions from the listening audience.

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brains trust British  

noun

1. a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television

2. Also called: brain trust. a group of experts who advise the government

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Colloid cysts typically form in a fluid-filled cavity in the centre of the brain, and are themselves filled with fluid, the Brains Trust says.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024

The President Roosevelt "The Brains Trust" of the best and brightest intellectuals were gathered together and were asked to predict what the next 25 years would hold.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

Another mentor was the BBC radio producer Lionel Gamlin, who made him question master of the Junior Brains Trust, and advised adopting his stage name of Bryan Forbes.

From The Guardian ● May 9, 2013

This 1960 photo captures her appearance on the BBC discussion programme The Brains Trust.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2011

Roosevelt assigned Rosenman to recruit the idea men who were to become known as the Brains Trust, notably Columbia Professors Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell and Adolf A. Berle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The COVID-19 crisis is too complex for any cloistered 21st-century brains trust to figure it out.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2021

Ainsley and shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves have convened a kind of "brains trust" - or "a community of thinkers"- to discuss how the party might approach the challenges of the future.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2021

The Italian brains trust on the bench have been involved in a lengthy conflab to find a solution to the inertia.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2018

While not averse to using odd ingredients - from Japanese citrus fruit yuzu to bergamot - the idea of filling a pint full of fish bladders left a bad taste with the brewery's brains trust.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2016

Renewal, a think-tank founded in 2013 to promote working-class Toryism, is emerging as the new regime’s brains trust.

From Economist ● Aug. 4, 2016