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as in geeks
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 intellectuals
a person with strong intellectual interests
an unlikely romance between a nerd and a campus beauty queen
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Recent Examples of nerds
But of course, for space nerds like us, lots of old, classic factions and debates pop out of this new framework.
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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2025
Roberts’s pet theory is the Major Questions Doctrine, known to Supreme Court nerds as MQD.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
Military history nerds will be pleased.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
For tech nerds like me, the holiday shopping season starts as soon as Black Friday sales start flooding every corner of the internet.
—PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
And the pop culture nerds here at Them have been hit especially hard by these losses over the years.
—Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 29 Oct. 2025
Tape nerds will note that Dončić also made six 2s from the left side of the free-throw area.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Once the territory of grandfathers and sitcom nerds, sweater vests have had a resurgence over the last decade.
—Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025
Shildt was an old-timer, relying more on feel and instinct than the cellar-dwelling nerds who run the sport with impossible numbers that don’t mean a damn thing.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2025
Roberts’s pet theory is the Major Questions Doctrine, known to Supreme Court nerds as MQD.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
Military history nerds will be pleased.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
For tech nerds like me, the holiday shopping season starts as soon as Black Friday sales start flooding every corner of the internet.
—PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
And the pop culture nerds here at Them have been hit especially hard by these losses over the years.
—Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 29 Oct. 2025
Tape nerds will note that Dončić also made six 2s from the left side of the free-throw area.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Once the territory of grandfathers and sitcom nerds, sweater vests have had a resurgence over the last decade.
—Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025
Shildt was an old-timer, relying more on feel and instinct than the cellar-dwelling nerds who run the sport with impossible numbers that don’t mean a damn thing.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerds
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In the 1990s, the internet boom created overnight fortunes along with unforeseen challenges for some tech geeks and impresarios who founded wildly successful dot-coms.—
Christina Binkley,
Robb Report,
11 Oct. 2025
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If Substack creators can make a living on affiliate links, why not music geeks?—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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In the early twentieth century, two groups of Indians living in America, young intellectuals and working-class laborers, had very different experiences of the country.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Nov. 2025
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Another way to gauge the influence of socialism in US history is to list some of the prominent American writers, artists, intellectuals, activists, and scientists who either publicly embraced the label or favored a socialist blueprint for the nation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Nerds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerds. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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