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Recent Examples of gearhead
Now with 75 more horsepower than before, the 2027 Ram 1500 SRT TRX is a beast of a truck geared for gearheads.
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Kristin Shaw,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
In my experience, gearheads choose one of two movies as their favorite all-time: Smokey and the Bandit or Days of Thunder.
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Caleb Jacobs,
The Drive,
14 Jan. 2026
Some of the concept vehicles on display at SEMA are straight out of a gearhead's dreams.
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Charles Singh,
Nashville Tennessean,
10 Nov. 2025
Its acceleration roars are music to the ears of any gearhead.
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Charles Singh,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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Kristin Shaw,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
In my experience, gearheads choose one of two movies as their favorite all-time: Smokey and the Bandit or Days of Thunder.
—
Caleb Jacobs,
The Drive,
14 Jan. 2026
Some of the concept vehicles on display at SEMA are straight out of a gearhead's dreams.
—
Charles Singh,
Nashville Tennessean,
10 Nov. 2025
Its acceleration roars are music to the ears of any gearhead.
—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gearhead
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gearhead
Noun
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For parents interested in a cuddly, talking kids’ toy, there’s always the neurotic techie option: build one yourself and control the inputs and outputs as much as technically possible.
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The result is a scathing takedown that will find techies throughout the Valley looking over their shoulders and speculating on who is who amongst the show’s motley collection of fictional backstabbers obsessed with growing their profit margin and amassing wealth and power.
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Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.
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In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has opportunistically seized on air-conditioning, portraying it as an urgent quality-of-life issue that moralizing environmentalists and overreaching technocrats have ignored.
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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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Audiences and technophiles have been wowed, but film purists have howled over the trimming of more than 25 minutes of runtime, including some musical numbers.
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On its own, the G2 only offers enough changes to justify that technophile urge if the Conversate AI feature appeals to you.
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“Gearhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gearhead. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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