Sentence examples for brain fag from inspiring English sources

The phrase "brain fag" is correct and can be used in written English, though it is considered outdated and potentially offensive.
It can be used in discussions about mental fatigue or cognitive overload, particularly in academic contexts.
Example: "After studying for hours without a break, I felt a sense of brain fag that made it hard to concentrate."
Alternatives: "mental fatigue" or "cognitive overload."

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brain fag

noun

A condition to which male high school and college students are prone consisting of difficulty in concentrating, mild forgetfulness, and difficulty in maintaining a train of thought, arising from "too much thinking". Physical symptoms can manifest as well.

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It is easy to forget that many Indians once viewed computers as "man-eating machines", entrepreneurs as predators and the English language as a cause of "brain fag".

In Nigeria, students who can't retain information and report feeling a burning sensation in their heads are sometimes given a diagnosis of "brain fag".

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But show me a picture of Brigitte Bardot with a fag in her mouth and my brain will think: "Yeah, that's sexy".

By the fag end of the Cannes competition the legs have gone, the brain is woolly and the films themselves appear to have come out in sympathy.

Because for all the clichés about him being a beer-and-fags, knockabout kinda bloke, he is a guy with a serious cricket brain.

They have the body of a woman and the brain of a child, or a toddler on Sunny-D, or a world-weary sea captain sucking on a fag and staring into the abyss.

Kaurismäki lights another fag.

Gotta be a fag.

And a fag.

First, light fag.

In the current study, three recombinant derivatives of Fag t 1, designated as Fag t 1-rs1, Fag t 1-rs2, and Fag t 1-rs3, were constructed via rational design and genetic engineering.

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