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Recent Examples of dork In Don’t Get High, an alpha dork and her merry gang of dweebs start an anti-drug group at their high school to make friends and influence people. Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025 Watch Good Omens on Amazon Prime Video Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan John Krasinski ditches The Office's lovable dork Jim Halpert to become Marine vet–turned–CIA analyst Jack Ryan on this political thriller. Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025 Donovan’s Meyers is fascinating in his stilted weirdness, a bit of a dandy and a bit of a dork. Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025 Those Park-Conklins are such sweet dorks. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dork
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dork
Noun
  • Here, Deadline speaks with the multi-hyphenate about her Kickstarter campaign, the challenges of creating a series and representation in the nerd space.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But hey, whiskey nerds are gonna whiskey nerd and whiskey sellers are gonna gouge.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1990s, the internet boom created overnight fortunes along with unforeseen challenges for some tech geeks and impresarios who founded wildly successful dot-coms.
    Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
  • If Substack creators can make a living on affiliate links, why not music geeks?
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Only a moron would cut the funding of an industry that actually brings revenue into the government’s pocket.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Dork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dork. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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