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- was such a nerd in college that she spent Saturday nights at the library
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- an unlikely romance between a nerd and a campus beauty queen
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The Many Origin Stories of 'Nerd'
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Theories range from Seuss to Snerd to college partiers
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The first known use of nerd was in 1951
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