"brainstorm" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Meanwihle at Winterfell, another overdone scheme designed mainly to surprise the audience. In the black of her chambers, Sansa brainstorms with Littlefinger what Arya could want. “After she murders you, what does she become?” he asks. To which Sansa does everything but gasp and spit-take, widening her eyes and saying like she’s just realizing it for the first time, “Lady of Winterfell.”",
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        "(transitive) To think up (ideas); especially, to do so creatively."
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          "text": "2005 October 5, \"Iguchi hit ruins Red Sox's night\", BBC Online, 5 October\nA terrible fielding error from Tony Graffanino proved costly. … Aaron Rowand collected an RBI double to get them off the mark before Graffanino's brainstorm. Juan Uribe hit a roller to the second baseman, who let the potential inning-ending double-play ball roll under his glove, leaving runners at first and third bases."
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        "(British) An unexpected mental error."
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      ],
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          "mental"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sudden thought",
      "word": "älynvälähdys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sudden thought",
      "word": "välähdys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sudden thought",
      "word": "neronleimaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sudden thought",
      "word": "ohia manomano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sudden thought",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "aha-upplevelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mental error",
      "word": "moka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "mental error",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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    }
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}