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as in nerd
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
was quickly stereotyped as another computer geek
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as in intellectual
a person with strong intellectual interests
a jock-dominated campus on which geeks were either ridiculed or ignored
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as in expert
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field
a friend who is an audio-video geek set up my home theater for me
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Recent Examples of geek
This hyper-personalized approach to teaching is a tennis geek’s dream.
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Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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
Cynthia Erivo sang-hosted the June 8 ceremony from Radio City Music Hall, making several dreams come true for a room full of theater geeks.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 June 2025
Cycling geeks come to watch the famous Tour de Flanders and visit the cycling museum in Oudenaarde, and beer lovers can create their dream cycling and beer tasting tour.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 13 May 2025
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Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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
Cynthia Erivo sang-hosted the June 8 ceremony from Radio City Music Hall, making several dreams come true for a room full of theater geeks.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 June 2025
Cycling geeks come to watch the famous Tour de Flanders and visit the cycling museum in Oudenaarde, and beer lovers can create their dream cycling and beer tasting tour.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for geek
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The movie asks an important question: what if nerds were horny enough to create a supermodel?—
Jordan Hoffman Updated,
EW.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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And finally, history nerds such as myself will probably think our new galleries featuring some of The Courier Journal's oldest photos from around Louisville are pretty cool.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
31 July 2025
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Call a word a bomb and you out yourself as a Western intellectual, more afraid of an idea than of an MK-84.—
Emily Van Duyne
July 24,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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The term evolved over the course of centuries, describing struggling artists, creatives and intellectuals in 19th-century France.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
22 July 2025
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Legal experts on religion cases expect the court will side with the Rastafarian.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
2 Aug. 2025
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An emergency mental health crisis hold isn’t enough to stop someone from buying a gun, though, according to experts who spoke to the Review Journal.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
2 Aug. 2025
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On every episode of this podcast, host Lena Crown speaks with writers, artists, critics, and scholars across generations who have awakened something for one another.—
Awakeners
August 7,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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Yet Putin, who likely has a coterie of scholars on international criminal law who have explained to him the mechanics of personal immunity, is likely to do everything to hold onto power for as long as possible, to avoid losing his protection from trial for war crimes and armed aggression.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Rihanna has long been the master of maternity fashion.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
8 Aug. 2025
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Those students could earn $55,000 while taking classes for their master’s degrees and working in the field under mentors at MPS.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Entertainment Weekly has learned that a new group of actors are taking over the iconic roles for Pottermore Publishing and Audible's productions of J.K. Rowling's original seven books about the young boy wizard.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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More than 600 million books about the boy wizard have been sold whilst the 11 movies about them have grossed $9.7 billion and the latest Potter videogame generated $850 million in just its first two weeks.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The digital adept also had a nearly eight-year stretch at Teen Vogue.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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Slot shares this staple of Tottenham counterpart Ange Postecoglou’s attacking principles, with Porro adept at tucking inside to disrupt the opposition shape.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Now, Amy Odell is digging deeper into the actress turned guru’s varied life and career in her new biography, Gwyneth, out now.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
29 July 2025
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Pascal placed his full faith in the Hollywood strength guru, who had experience with post-injury training.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
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“Geek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geek. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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