bookish
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Eventually I left for university, where I found my own tribe of bookish girls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned him the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Dan, as bookish as he is athletic, approaches matters in a calmer register: “How should I conduct my life? Do you trust yourself, or do you not?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
It’s a simplistic vision of the world that could appeal to and be well understood by bookish children like me.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026
She could see the similarities between these two lonely children, even more clearly than they could: the same sensitive personalities lurking inside both of them, the same bookish wisdom layered over a deep naïveté.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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