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- noun Plural form of
brain . - noun plurale tantum, informal
Intelligence ;aptitude ; mentalcapability . - noun plurale tantum The brain of one or more animals used as food.
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Examples
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So being told off for using your brains is about as absurd as being told off for detecting too much … Officers.
Glasgow Bombs « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Although the “realism” of Cowboy Kirk winning a fight because of his brains is a bit of a stretch, I did enjoy the episode.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Best fight in all of TV history…without question 2007
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If, instead of marrying a young girl who didn't know any better than to believe that you were a man, instead of a fractional one, you had come to me, and borrowed my revolver and blown out the fungus growth which you refer to as your brains, you would have bit it.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna.
The Silence 2010
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Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna.
The Silence 2010
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In diplomacy, counting on unassisted brains is iffier yet.
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In diplomacy, counting on unassisted brains is iffier yet.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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I'm not quite so optimistic that such an interface to our brains is near to hand, but the more realistic possibility of squeezing all the wood pulp crowding my office into the smallest of hand-held devices has given me a new perspective.
Seth Shostak: Burn the Bookcases! Seth Shostak 2010
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In diplomacy, counting on unassisted brains is iffier yet.
Africa 2009
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They caused the current economic crisis and watermelon for brains is making it much worse. kate
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