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Recent Examples of gearhead
There are gearheads who go and people with Instagram accounts devoted to their cars, but there are also people there like Kevin Kuzma, who lost his deceased mom’s 1957 Chevrolet 210.
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Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gearhead
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For a certain type of techie in the Bay Area, the most important economic upheaval of our time is the coming of ultrapowerful AI models.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2025
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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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When Musk and other technocrats attempt to scale this approach to the sprawling, adaptive systems of nation-states and global society, its limitations become apparent.—
Dr. Alex Gold,
Forbes.com,
18 June 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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This hyper-personalized approach to teaching is a tennis geek’s dream.—
Katie Kelly Bell,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Desperate to return to his own era to help save his kin, Rex must team up with a gang of nerds, freaks and geeks to go back 65 million years in time.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
10 June 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 5 Jul. 2025.
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