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noun

ˈbrān How to pronounce brain (audio)
Definition of brainnext
1
as in genius
a very smart person the brains all sit together at lunch

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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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brain

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verb

as in to skull

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Recent Examples of brain
Noun
These are ways in which our brains process social outcomes much like other kinds of gains or losses. — Ashwini Nadkarni, Time, 24 Oct. 2026 Another rose from her chair to update Barbosa on her recent brain surgery. — Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
Retro Rewind is the kind of game that will keep your hands and brain minimally busy while listening to a podcast or watching some rerun on a background TV. — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026 For example, Google’s state-of-the-art Gemini 3 model was brained on TPUs. — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for brain
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brain
  1. genius
  2. intelligence
  3. mind
  4. skull
  5. wizard
  6. intellect
  7. psyche
  8. bean
Noun
  • Newcomer Mia Tharia’s Josie is a sickly genius who’s invariably kind to Klara and precociously self-aware in the vein of YA teen heroes everywhere.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026
  • With stars, form, and strategic geniuses on both sides, today's face-off is promising to be a game for the ages.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of genius
Noun
  • The drills include amphibious landing, air and missile defense and mine sweeping, as well as intelligence gathering, logistics and resupply and casualty evacuation on several remote islands, including Tanegashima.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Other parts of government already contract out rocket launches, cloud storage, satellite intelligence and artificial-intelligence analysis to the tech sector.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of intelligence
Noun
  • These are songs that iterate and elevate minor party fouls into dramas of symphonic proportion, arrangements that articulate the heightened emotions churning inside anxious minds.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Several opinion polls show that rising costs of living are top of mind for voters ahead of the elections.
    — Chad de Guzman, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of mind
Verb
  • 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
  • Someone took out a golf driver and skulled the top off of a full can of Bud Light and drank what was left.
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2018
Definition of skull
Noun
  • The wizard freed to blend these two great elixirs of innovation?
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • This earlier Russell work did not include acid queens, pinball wizards, or teenage-wasteland messiahs.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of wizard
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  • Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The man had style down, unafraid to go full-tilt into camp fantasia while always staying grounded in fierce intellect.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of intellect
Noun
  • Kate is once again explaining to Hal something very obvious about his own psyche and routine behavior.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In the American psyche, data centers have become so reviled that big tech can’t even pay residents life changing money to welcome the facilities into their backyards.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of psyche
Verb
  • Then there was winning the regional at Maryland in 2022, with his father, who was nearly killed by a beaning there decades earlier, in the stands to watch.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2026
  • In the last meeting between these teams in early November, Bane beaned Okongwu in the head with the ball after flagrantly fouling him and was ejected from the game.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2026
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