as in intellectuals
a person with strong intellectual interests
long-standing tension between the townies and the longhairs at the elite college
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Noun
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Both existentialism and absurdism have their appeal and are represented by very cool intellectuals.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025 -
But there was a period during China's reform era that some pro-reform intellectuals admired the fact that America's ruling class was proficient in procedures.—
Vincent Ni,
NPR,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But hey, whiskey nerds are gonna whiskey nerd and whiskey sellers are gonna gouge.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
28 Sep. 2025
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Sure, there will always be some people who care, just as today there are nerds like me willing to debate the merits of writing for the Z80 versus the 6502 8-bit CPUs.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Longhairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longhairs. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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