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as in nerd
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
was quickly stereotyped as another computer geek
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as in intellectual
a person with strong intellectual interests
a jock-dominated campus on which geeks were either ridiculed or ignored
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as in expert
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field
a friend who is an audio-video geek set up my home theater for me
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Recent Examples of geek
Mottice’s App contains all of the things that weather geeks like me want including storm outlooks, local storm reports, forecast discussions, weather stories, and climate reports.
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Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
While most people just want to start shooting, the geeks also want to dig into the minutia and spend hours debating the merits of one camera versus the other.
—Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 1 Apr. 2025
Redford heads a team of eccentric misfits that includes a former CIA Agent (Sidney Poitier), a conspiracy theorist (Dan Aykroyd), an awkward geek (River Phoenix), and a blind man (David Strathairn) who get in over their heads when tasked with finding a device capable of breaking any code.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
The 135-room hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is definitely for the AV geeks.
—Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
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Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
While most people just want to start shooting, the geeks also want to dig into the minutia and spend hours debating the merits of one camera versus the other.
—Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 1 Apr. 2025
Redford heads a team of eccentric misfits that includes a former CIA Agent (Sidney Poitier), a conspiracy theorist (Dan Aykroyd), an awkward geek (River Phoenix), and a blind man (David Strathairn) who get in over their heads when tasked with finding a device capable of breaking any code.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
The 135-room hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is definitely for the AV geeks.
—Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for geek
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Take it from a film critic: Even gawky beta nerds get smothered by their own internalized masculinity.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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Wednesday night gives us a grudge match worth watching, and a sliding-doors moment to bask in and nerd out.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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One is blond, hair almost white, wears wire glasses, and exudes the presence of a bohemian intellectual.—
Jeffrey Seller,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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In 1799, Davy expanded his experiments to include intellectuals, philosophers and poets, like Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in what became known as the nitrous oxide trials.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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Here’s what the experts have to say about why grief shows up in the body and how to cope with it.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
SELF,
15 Apr. 2025
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All the fashion experts—including Hailey Bieber—have surrendered to their charm.—
Isabel Serra,
Glamour,
15 Apr. 2025
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Legal scholars have said there is little legal precedent for Trump's war on Big Law, which has created a chilling effect across the legal community, and most will certainly have a chilling effect on his opponents who will need legal representation against him.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2025
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On top of that, the Trump administration has detained some international scholars who have expressed support for Palestinian causes or criticized Israel over the war in Gaza.—
Tinbete Ermyas,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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But the ability to navigate this uncertainty depends on high-quality, accurate data—particularly supplier master data—which is easier said than done.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Apr. 2025
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According to a press statement from the HBCU, graduates from the university’s 14 schools and colleges this year will be among the largest graduating classes in the institution’s history to receive bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in various disciplines.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Can your brain be trained to become a chart-predicting wizard?—
Dividend Channel,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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See It, Feel It, Buy It Six years after The Who released Tommy, the British rockers followed it with a 1975 film starring Roger Daltrey as the titular pinball wizard.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
26 Mar. 2025
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The younger Aes Sedai adept is busy learning the ways of walking in Tel’aran’rhiod, the dreamworld overlaid atop the real one and parallel to the regular, non-magical dreams most people experience.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps Sheridan’s greatest magic trick occurs on Landman, where the adept acting of Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm make the case that Thornton’s oil-field fixer and Hamm’s billionaire are the true American martyrs.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
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As management guru Peter Drucker is often credited as saying, culture eats strategy for breakfast.—
Ryan Wong,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Being mentored by Carr and having an offensive guru in Kellen Moore as a head coach could help elevate Sanders' game.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Geek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geek. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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