egghead
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Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
A professor who refused to be an ivory tower egghead, Brustein didn’t simply respond to the art of his day but helped shape it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Bump is a columnist for The Washington Post with a 1950s egghead vibe who writes an appealing newsletter called How to Read This Chart.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Individual investors and savers, however, don’t need some economic egghead to give a recession an official stamp of approval.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2022
Call me an egghead, but that's how I see it.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
What's a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare "brat" a word of the year?
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Which is a reminder even to the eggheads that no one has ever won the Ryder Cup on a spreadsheet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025
Gone were the fluffy perms that are the definers of K-pop stardom - here instead were "eggheads", anonymised buzzcuts of soldiers on the frontline.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2023
Levitan calls the phrase “a bit of down-home hucksterism designed to marginalize those eggheads over there who actually are scientists as somehow out of touch or silly.”
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018
I’ve heard us called egglets—children of the eggheads.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
