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left-brained

or left-brain

[ left-breynd ]

adjective

  1. having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  2. of or relating to a person whose left brain is dominant.


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Example Sentences

Wordle is a robust, left-brained deduction game; it does not lend itself to creative hint construction, or smug, crossword-ish puns.

From Slate

From the myth that humans only use 10 percent of their brain to the idea that creativity and logic is a "right-brained" versus "left-brained" issue, there are many popular misconceptions about neuroscience that have wormed their way into public consciousness.

From Salon

Yet they also said that it’s an environment where left-brained and right-brained thinking operate in relative harmony.

Nolan used a movie about magic to make a statement about the magic of the movies, perhaps the most personal he’s ever allowed in his left-brained oeuvre.

Her father was “left-brained,” she said, but her mother and grandmother raised her and her brothers as Christian Scientists, “a spiritual education I value greatly.”

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