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something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
the artificial language Esperanto was the brainchild of L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish oculist
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Recent Examples of brainchild
The group is the brainchild of Alison Singer, co-founder and president of the Autism Science Foundation.
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O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 19 Mar. 2026
The Mojave Experience is the brainchild of Patrick Brink, singer and songwriter for the band Volume, who was born and raised in Twentynine Palms.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Nights in the Library kicked off in 2017, as the brainchild of BPL’s Vice President of Arts and Culture, Jakab Orsós.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
The brainchild of co-creators Adam Reed and Matt Thompson — who would later create Frisky Dingo before defecting to FX for Archer — the show recycled Hanna-Barbera animations from the actual show SeaLab 2020 to create its chaos set in a lab at the bottom of the sea.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
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O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 19 Mar. 2026
The Mojave Experience is the brainchild of Patrick Brink, singer and songwriter for the band Volume, who was born and raised in Twentynine Palms.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Nights in the Library kicked off in 2017, as the brainchild of BPL’s Vice President of Arts and Culture, Jakab Orsós.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
The brainchild of co-creators Adam Reed and Matt Thompson — who would later create Frisky Dingo before defecting to FX for Archer — the show recycled Hanna-Barbera animations from the actual show SeaLab 2020 to create its chaos set in a lab at the bottom of the sea.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brainchild
Noun
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Its deployment reflects Beijing’s growing ambition to build long-term, scalable infrastructure for sustained deep-sea exploration and innovation.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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Trump and his advisors, including AI and crypto czar David Sacks, have argued that various state laws are a burden to innovation.—
Deepa Shivaram,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2026
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By bringing to the seas this terrestrial invention, seagrasses grew in ways that no other ocean species could, in rugged mats of almost unbreakable fibers.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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The lessons that endure are about constraint and invention, messiness and coordination, contradiction and persistence—about intervening directly and fearlessly in material reality.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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The challenge of weather-app creation lies both in the improbability of accurately predicting the weather and in the difficulty of designing something that works for any user, anywhere.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Brainchild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brainchild. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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