wonks

plural of wonk
as in nerds
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits the candidate has an army of policy wonks ready to write for him a position paper on virtually any issue

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Recent Examples of wonks But there’s no way, the GTW accounting wonks insist, that the Buffs’ bean-counters would ever let CU give up a home game, and a home gate, for a jaunt across the pond. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2025 Don’t look now, but the wonks have come out with a way to measure how well AI entities do at forming relationships with people. John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • View gallery - 6 images For us motorcycle nerds, the best time of the year is here.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But hey, whiskey nerds are gonna whiskey nerd and whiskey sellers are gonna gouge.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Wonks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonks. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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