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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.
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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.
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David Pryce-Jones,
WSJ,
19 Aug. 2022
His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left.
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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
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Founded by Thiel and Auren Hoffman, the invite-only network of CEOs, politicians and intellectuals meets to have small, moderated conversations in confidentiality about the future of tech, according to Axios, which reported the forum’s plans for a DC-area campus last year.
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The challenge with her was playing such an intellectual.
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Deadline asks the Festival chief whether Series Mania is focused on the highbrow of the drama spectrum.
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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.
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Adding a little pop of electric blue instantly livens up what could otherwise be a boring outfit.
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State Auditor Rob Sand is running a competitive race to turn the governor’s mansion blue.
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Hunter Pence, a nerd at heart, spent money from his first paycheck to buy himself a gaming computer to play World of Warcraft.
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Design and photography nerds will appreciate the book’s beautiful layout, fun use of color, and stunning images; but this is, crucially, not the kind of book made just to look at.
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By now, however, most know him as the lovable, cello-playing geek Leonard Hofstadter who married the pretty blonde waitress.
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But in this literary theatre geek’s opinion—and, evidently, the voting public’s—there’s always room for more crossover acts.
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“Bluestocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluestocking. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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