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- n the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
- v try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it
- But the company is having trouble developing a product that can compete with Lotus Notes, which dominates the market for "groupware" (the software that helps people brainstorm over .
- On his return to Zurich in 1912 Einstein had a brainstorm.
- Levithan runs a weekly "idea group" at Scholastic "basically, about a dozen editors get together every week, and we just brainstorm ideas," he explains.