egghead
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Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
The head of E. electricus looks like the letter “u,” whereas that of E. voltai was more ovular — an egghead.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
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
And finally, they’ll be able to answer a question that Ivy League eggheads have been pondering for a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
“We had some real eggheads, and famously, they don’t watch comedy. Then you trample all over their favorite topic” and things can get tense, she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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
“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
