1
as in genius
a very smart person
the brains all sit together at lunch
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2
as in intelligence
often brains plural
the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems
you have the brains to figure out that problem on your own
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as in mind
the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons
I'd love to get inside his brain and experience the world as he experiences it
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as in to skull
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Recent Examples of brain
Ajdina Halilovic, Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2025
Just before Louise gets kidnapped off the street, Joe — who was, conveniently, stalking her at the time — swoops in to brain that dude with a brick.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Omega-3s also have powerful anti-inflammatory properties and can support and protect the health of the heart and brain.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 13 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Introduction May 7, 2025 biology brains cells memory molecular biology neurons neuroscience proteins All topics
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When Todd Sacktor (opens a new tab) was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia.
—Ajdina Halilovic, Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2025
Just before Louise gets kidnapped off the street, Joe — who was, conveniently, stalking her at the time — swoops in to brain that dude with a brick.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
According to a GoFundMe page, Spencer was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy in 2014 and emergency surgery in 2018 to relieve bleeding on her brain.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Omega-3s also have powerful anti-inflammatory properties and can support and protect the health of the heart and brain.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain
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Between them, the gangly mods kept alive the fading tradition of feuding musical geniuses, a path that Paul McCartney and John Lennon had paved before them.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
28 Aug. 2025
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As Cal-Berkeley professor Enrico Moretti has long articulated, the genius of high-end construction and job creation can’t be limited to the headline jobs.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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This biomimetic approach to AI development would position Malaysia to export not just technological products, but technological philosophies — ways of thinking about intelligence that emerge from ecological rather than industrial metaphors.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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There are hints throughout the film that Elizabeth may have been an intelligence agent.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Three of the five players who got in at 64 was enough to wonder which cup was on their minds.—
Doug Ferguson,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Aug. 2025
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While enjoying a lunch of some of my favorite vegetables Barbara Rolls came to mind.—
Sheah Rarback,
Miami Herald,
21 Aug. 2025
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And, most incredibly, not after skulling a bunker shot on the par-5 14th, then hacking out to 30 feet.—
Daniel Rapaport,
SI.com,
13 June 2019
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The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.—
Daniel Rapaport,
SI.com,
17 June 2019
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The Emerald City, where Dorothy and Co. trek to visit the all-powerful wizard, is vast, striking and very, very green.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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After fulfilling the accidental want of a girl named Vira, Christmas, winter symbols, and the magical powers of the wizards, disappear from people’s memories.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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Just his razor-sharp intellect and the motivation to work hard.—
Rich Tabaka,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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And for those of us who’ve built our identities around propositional knowing, our intellect and our cleverness, this shift doesn’t just feel professional.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
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Hooker believes the bombing of Hamburg, Operation Gomorrah, drove Lagerfeld to escape into his creative psyche.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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These moments help rewire the emotional circuitry away from validation-seeking and back toward genuine connection, what the psyche is truly longing for beneath the performance. 5.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Detmers came in to face the top of the order and beaned Brandon Nimmo to load the bases for Francisco Lindor, who beat out a double play to score Alvarez, and stole second to put runners on second and third.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
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Suárez fell behind 3-0 in the count to Ohtani, and on the next pitch, Suárez beaned Ohtani with a 100 mph fastball to the right shoulder.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
21 June 2025
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“Brain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brain. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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