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- the candidate has an army of policy wonks ready to write for him a position paper on virtually any issue
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“Wonk.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonk. Accessed 28 January 2020.
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The first known use of wonk was in 1954
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