How to Use brain trust in a Sentence

brain trust

noun
  • The president's brain trust recommended the action.
  • This new Canucks brain trust has its work cut out for it.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • There is little doubt the Dodger brain trust is aware of this fact.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
  • But the new model starts with a core onshore brain trust that owns the roadmap.
    — Baris Kavakli, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • The movie is one of many projects coming out of this two-person brain trust.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The team's brain trust pulled the trigger with the present and future in mind.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The brain trust for each team will also meet with the media throughout the week.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This draft seems straightforward for the Vikings' brain trust.
    — Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • That’s because of the new and glitzy brain trust in Las Vegas.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The new brain trust added four veterans in free agency and traded for a fifth.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Added to this is the loss of the defense establishment’s brain trust.
    — Afshon Ostovar, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2025
  • The Pelicans' brain trust is searching for the team's next head coach.
    — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Clark might be a project in his own right, but the brain trust really needs to give him a few games to gauge his progress.
    — Manish Mehta, courant.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Think of it as a window into their brain trust—or, at least, a very helpful starting point.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Slate Magazine, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Are there any other Narcos descendants left in the brain trust that could come out?
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • About two weeks later, Nicholson met with Bannon and his brain trust.
    — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Instead, the Twins’ brain trust made a flurry of moves that helped the team run away with the division.
    — Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Stafford, however, does not dig very deep, confident that the Rams’ brain trust will make the right picks.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • That’s up to Rob Pelinka and the Lakers brain trust to decide.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Taylor Fritz has added the wise head of Paul Annacone to the brain trust.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • But the franchise’s brain trust is telling the next handful of pitchers to keep striving for a job that isn’t available quite yet.
    — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2021
  • But, no, the brain trust behind Wendy’s continues to add more tasks to the Frosty’s to-do list.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Now, the three of them form the head of the brain trust that will decide which names will be next to stock the Orioles’ farm system.
    — Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
  • Michael Silver spent some time with the Baltimore brain trust during the draft to poke around.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Kaman was among the brain trust that came up with the idea of schools bringing their kids to The Cowtown to run as a group.
    — John Henry, star-telegram, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But given the Rangers’ either/or brand of play lately, the brain trust may not be so eager to scroll their contacts.
    — Dallas News, 10 June 2022
  • Kevin Warren and his brain trust will have a bunch of questions to answer that should have never been a factor in the first place.
    — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2020
  • As Biden’s brain trust sees it, the race could be a three- or four-way slog after Super Tuesday.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Off to the side of that conversation was the FC Cincinnati brain trust.
    — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2019
  • Philadelphia gets the brain trust of Doc Rivers and Daryl Morey.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2020

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