as in intellectual
much given to learning and thinking
one university campus on which the geeky student will not feel like a social outcast
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Adjective
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Secretary Rubio is constructing a Department of State where groupthink is out and intellectual rigor is in; where DEI is replaced with merit; and where training focuses on winning in a tough world.—
Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025 -
Before Heritage, most think tanks were structured either as contractors such as the RAND Corp., providing policy analysis at the request of the federal government, or universities without students, where individual scholars pursued their own intellectual priorities.—
E.J. Fagan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In the case of Earth, premiering Aug. 12, the subjects of artificial intelligence and corporate overreach provide more than enough fodder for cerebral sci-fi horror grounded in the anxieties of 2025.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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Michael Cole talked up Gunther’s cerebral nature as Wade Barrett chimed in about the evolution of the modern-day wrestler.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In the interim silence, a sizable amount of scholarly work was churned out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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Either way, the scholarly tendency has been to devalue choice and chance as historical factors.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Geeky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geeky. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.
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