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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of exploring another's ideas through questioning.
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Examples
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I have all kinds of mentors who are far craftier than I so I can do much brain-picking and advice-asking. lalalalalala.
crafty projects are piling up hanya27 2005
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They're brain-picking the galaxy, perhaps the universe. '
Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981
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Somehow he managed it so that the entire group went to dinner together, for mutual brain-picking.
World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966
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Outside developers are supposed to be available for brain-picking.
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Weekly Webcomic Wrapup makes a webcomic - Did you know they make psychologists get psychoanalyzed before they can practice their brain-picking craft?
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Outside developers are supposed to be available for brain-picking.
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Outside developers are supposed to be available for brain-picking.
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I've been reading and brain-picking for months on this topic, trying to understand it and trying to come up with how I feel about the possibility of making a longer-term commitment to a country that is known to consume empires.
odd time signatures 2009
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Weekly Webcomic Wrapup makes a webcomic - Did you know they make psychologists get psychoanalyzed before they can practice their brain-picking craft?
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Outside developers are supposed to be available for brain-picking.
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