Invention, informally

Usage examples of brainchild.

It was a sneaky plan, obviously the brainchild of the older, more experienced Zoariyi.

Probably Wal had been the brainchild of Uncle Zoariyi, and the sorcerer's hesitation suggested that he might even be aware of that.

We hoped the bus tour, the brainchild of Susan Thomases and David Wilhelm, would keep the excitement and momentum of the convention going.

The brainchild of Millard Fuller, a friend of ours from Renaissance Weekend, Habitat uses volunteers to build houses for and with poor people, who then pay for the cost of the materials.

The advent of the Industrial Revolution - and the imagery of the romantic lone inventor toiling on his brainchild in a basement or, later, a garage - gave rise to the patent.

Accepted only the year before, the Proteans were the brainchild of Hester L.

The system had been designed by the Advanced Technology Research Board, a board formed in reaction to the "GalTech" group, and was the brainchild of the former Ground Forces High Commander.

The previous October, President Truman had fired William Donovan, disbanding his brainchild, the OSS.

Using Donovan's brainchild, the Random Intervention Surveillance Sweep, which we now keep on every active field operative's home base, the Janitors picked up a phone call to Maroc's apartment at 5:57, local time.

She stopped when she came to the chop, the signature seal of the "official of the highest rank" whose brainchild the Hong Kong operation was.

I cannot expect to live for very much longer, but I hope that some of my brainchildren can.

And to help those brainchildren attain something approaching long life, it is just as well if I relax my rules and allow others to make use of them and reinvigorate them.

It appears to those who work with their minds and imagination, however, that to steal one brainchildren is almost as heinous a crime, and so , “ in English, has come to mean the stealing of the ideas, forms, or words by someone who then puts them forth as his or her own.

In his experience, most inventors were wildly eager to show off their brainchildren.

Those were rarer than one might have thought, and from his own experience, Simpson recognized the mental flexibility involved in acknowledging that someone else had actually made one of your own brainchildren better.