Brains Trust
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- a variation of brain trust.
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brains trustnouna group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
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Brains Trust
Americannoun
(sometimes lowercase)
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a panel of experts on radio or television, giving impromptu answers to selected questions from the listening audience.
brains trust
British
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a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
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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
After yet another disappointing World Cup quarter-final exit in 2023, the side's brains trust resisted the urge to make sweeping changes to their panel and were rewarded with another Six Nations title.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
The COVID-19 crisis is too complex for any cloistered 21st-century brains trust to figure it out.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2021
This brains trust helped Homeland take a new, more self-questioning direction.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2020
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
Barely 36 hours later, after a stirring in Sydney, the Lions brains trust reacted to unfolding events with a spectacular leap into left field.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2013
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