noun
brainstorming
CEFR B1
a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions
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Six example sentences with brainstorming, each labelled with its topic.
The founders spent Friday brainstorming, filling three walls with sticky notes and refusing to judge anything until Monday.
Startups
An hour of brainstorming produced ninety suggestions, and the team culled them to four the following afternoon.
Business
Experiments suggest that brainstorming works better when everyone writes privately first, since loud voices otherwise steer the whole room.
Psychology
The writers' room spends every Monday brainstorming, pitching a hundred plot twists before anyone is allowed to say no.
Movies
The studio opened the library project with two days of brainstorming, sketching rooftops and reading rooms on butcher paper.
Architecture
After the failed experiment the lab held an afternoon of brainstorming, listing every variable nobody had thought to control.
Science
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