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Recent Examples of gearhead
While electric vehicles may be all the buzz at recent shows, there will be multiple exciting nameplates on display that appeal to the average gearhead who wants nothing to do with an EV.
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Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
For Harper’s, Kushner chronicles his adolescent gearhead flowering, as well as their time spent with the National Hot Rod Association—traveling from race to race, speaking with drivers, and basking in the fumes of cameraderie and funny cars.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 18 Nov. 2024
What started back in the 1980s as a small gathering of gearheads has grown into a premier West Coast car show, drawing pristine hot rods, retro cruisers, and muscle machines from across the country—and even as far as Australia.
—Cliff Lewis, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025
Forza Horizon 5 There was a time when the Forza series was the exact sort of stuffy racing-sim that appealed to gearheads and nobody else.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
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Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
For Harper’s, Kushner chronicles his adolescent gearhead flowering, as well as their time spent with the National Hot Rod Association—traveling from race to race, speaking with drivers, and basking in the fumes of cameraderie and funny cars.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 18 Nov. 2024
What started back in the 1980s as a small gathering of gearheads has grown into a premier West Coast car show, drawing pristine hot rods, retro cruisers, and muscle machines from across the country—and even as far as Australia.
—Cliff Lewis, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025
Forza Horizon 5 There was a time when the Forza series was the exact sort of stuffy racing-sim that appealed to gearheads and nobody else.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gearhead
Noun
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Looming societal impacts will undoubtedly be unexplored since AI techies either aren’t thinking about those heady matters or assume that it will all get figured out once AI emerges once again into the global consciousness.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Denny’s gives techies a breakfast treat at keynote Cinequest documentary on Bank of America founder draws real interest Mark T. Johnson, board chair for Project Cornerstone, also lauded Haley.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2025
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In three years, murders fell by around half in New York, other violent crimes also declined, and Bratton became the face of the new police chief: a technocrat who brought quants to law enforcement.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2025
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At those meetings, Egypt will likely propose forming a committee of Palestinian technocrats and community leaders, all unaffiliated with Hamas, who could run Gaza after the war, according to two Arab diplomats, a senior Western official and Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland.—
Patrick Kingsley,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Owner David Rubenstein needs to get rid of Elias (maybe Cal Ripken Jr. would agree to the job) and get baseball people instead of computer geeks to run the team.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
22 May 2025
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Jon Cherry/Getty Images For years, crypto was viewed by many as a weird and fringe investment, hyped up by a bunch of math geeks and used widely by all kinds of unsavory characters, from drug dealers to hackers.—
Rafael Nam,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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After thwarting an attack against the celebrated technophile, Franklin picks up a mysterious ring that Burrell has dropped and soon discovers the ring allows its possessor to travel 57 seconds into the past.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
22 May 2022
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People use the terms gearhead, geek, technocrat, and technophile interchangeably.—
Kim Komando,
USA TODAY,
14 Apr. 2022
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“Gearhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gearhead. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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