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brain up

verb

  1. to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated

    we need to brain up the curriculum

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In 2008 a group of researchers found that some information about an upcoming decision is present in the brain up to 10 seconds in advance, long before people reported making the decision of when or how to act.

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“So you have to believe this woman is going to stride through the hallways of a hospital and open a person’s brain up and do an operation.”

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In Doctor Who almost every week there was a new monster to scare you as a child and it just fired my creative brain up.

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They chalk mommy brain up to sleep deprivation when that’s really just the tip of the iceberg.

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"Research has shown that, actually, the disease can start in the brain up to 20 years before symptoms show," she says.

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