brain-storm

plural brain-storms

1. alternativeAlternative form of brainstorm.

   The painting was “a private brain-storm which gives no evidence that Picasso has realised the political significance of Guernica.”

   2009, George Steiner, George Steiner at The New Yorker, →ISBN, page 12

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   Mr. Hammond, while engaged in some literary work connected with problems of dietetics, health and so on, in the British Museum Reading Room, was one day seized as he describes it with a sudden brain-storm, and though not having written a line of verse since boyhood suddenly found stanzas forming in his head quicker than he could record them.

   1925, Robert Graves, Poetic Unreason: And Other Studies, →ISBN, page 233

   "Next time you set out to have a 'brain-storm,' Miss Malgregor," he suggested satirically, "try to have it about something more sensible than imagining that anybody is trying to hold you personally responsible for the existence of death in the world."

   2006, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, The White Linen Nurse, →ISBN, page 36

2. alternativeAlternative form of brain storm.

   You're thinking he may have had a brain-storm?

   2006, Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds, →ISBN, page 45

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   Here had been tried all sorts of murder cases, with all sorts of defenses, from self-preservation with an ax to the irresponsibility of a brain-storm.

   1911, Isaac Newton Stevens, An American Suffragette, →ISBN

   Let us take the case of a man making this statement after being told of some violent act he has committed (and of which he has perhaps no recollection) during an epileptic seizure, or some other species of brain-storm.

   2004, C. A. Campbell, On Selfhood and Godhood - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 85

present singular third person brain-storms · participle present brain-storming · participle past brain-stormed · past brain-stormed

1. alternativeAlternative form of brainstorm.

   A dozen people sit around a table to brain-storm a specific problem.

   1969, The Progress of Education - Volume 44, page 263

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   These groups were called “real groups” since they actually brain-stormed together.

   2006, Frans Johansson, Medici Effect: What You Can Learn from Elephants and Epidemics, →ISBN

   He also had them share what they were thinking throughout this experience and put their brain-stormed responses on the board.

   2011, Lee Oberparleiter, The Role of Emotion and Reflection in Student Achievement, →ISBN