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as in geek
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
was such a nerd in college that she spent Saturday nights at the library
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as in intellectual
a person with strong intellectual interests
an unlikely romance between a nerd and a campus beauty queen
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Recent Examples of nerd
Hardcore mythology nerds know where each of these characters held dominion.
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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The original Gehry house: Architecture nerds know it.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
The movie asks an important question: what if nerds were horny enough to create a supermodel?
—Jordan Hoffman Updated, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2025
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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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The original Gehry house: Architecture nerds know it.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
The movie asks an important question: what if nerds were horny enough to create a supermodel?
—Jordan Hoffman Updated, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerd
Noun
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Think Chicago Auto Show but for NASCAR devotees and all kinds of car geeks.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 July 2025
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The upcoming Alien television series crash landed into Comic-Con with a blockbuster Hall H panel that got thousands of geeks sitting on the edge of their seats to an encroaching otherworldly horror.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
25 July 2025
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Yet the liberal intellectuals who have spent the past decade bashing identity politics and the woke mind virus have not embraced him.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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The partnership between their two countries was amplified and strengthened by the thousands of experts, administrators, publicists, intellectuals, and serving military who learned, not always easily, to work with one another.—
MARGARET MACMILLAN,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2025
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“Nerd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerd. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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