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BRAINSTORM
Definition of BRAINSTORM
verb
To investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From brain + storm. In the sense of "problem-solve", devised as a method of group creative problem-solving by advertising executive Alex F. Osborn and his employees, who coined the term based on the image of using "the brain to storm a problem". First use appears c. 1945. In the sense of "seizure, convulsion, brain activity", from the unrelated idea that it resembles a storm in the brain. First use appears c. 1861.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRAINSTORM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRAINSTORM starts with B and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ABIMNORRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start BRAINS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BRAINSTORM?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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