brain trust
(more recently) Any group of experts assembled to give advice.
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(more recently) Any group of experts assembled to give advice.
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(chiefly, US) Originally, a group of experts who advise a government, often informally.
“If we take it as granted that any system can be hacked, given enough time and the ample hacker community brain trust, we either need to lengthen the time (hoping someone finally notices), or change the entire modern economic culture :-p”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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