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Recent Examples of bluestocking
The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits.
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Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
But Peck is already aware of Imogen's penchant for pandemonium, resisting the task of baby-sitting a bluestocking.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023
One of them was the famous 18th-century bluestocking Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of Edward Montagu, a British ambassador.
—David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left.
—Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
But Peck is already aware of Imogen's penchant for pandemonium, resisting the task of baby-sitting a bluestocking.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023
One of them was the famous 18th-century bluestocking Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of Edward Montagu, a British ambassador.
—David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left.
—Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bluestocking
Noun
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Should be a fascinating account from one of our most important public intellectuals.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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The City of Lights became a refuge for Black artists and intellectuals, if not an uncomplicated one.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Deadline asks the Festival chief whether Series Mania is focused on the highbrow of the drama spectrum.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 2025
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Wagner would be a sleepless highbrow’s favorite; the long, lush, unbroken lines of music share with the white-noise hum of the air-conditioner or the thrum of the painstaking lecture the quality of being absorbing without offering undue eventfulness.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Granite comes in shades ranging from gray to red to blue to green and beyond.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
15 Jan. 2026
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Are your existing countertops, flooring, and furnishings leaning toward cool undertones (like grays and blues) or warmer earth tones (beiges and browns)?—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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His Peter is the guy in the corner, the one no one remembers was in the room, possibly a former nerd or the watchful child of a tough household.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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Joyce nerds will recall Leopold Bloom’s visit to Sweny’s in the Lotos-Eaters episode quite early in Ulysses.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Crumb, at the time, would be dressed unremarkably casually, in banal pants and sweater, with thick glasses, looking more or less like a geek.—
David Zane Mairowitz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Dec. 2025
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The pissed off punk rockers, the hopelessly antisocial geeks, and the kids doing drugs.—
David Alvarado,
Time,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Bluestocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluestocking. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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