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egghead

[eg-hed] / ˈɛgˌhɛd /


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Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

The recruiter had explained it, but you wanted to get it from the egghead, not the Parental Unit Liaison.

From Slate ● May 30, 2020

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

It’s high time that a prominent nonlawyer take a turn at this critique of the Roberts court, and it’s clear that Walz may succeed where all of us polite eggheads have failed.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024

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

“Didn’t you see the news yesterday? Some eggheads at Warwick College certified him as a genius with an IQ that’s off the charts!”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein




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