egghead
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Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Was it a satire of a certain brand of charismatic egghead?
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
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
Now I’m trapped in this little egghead house, this house of geeks.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2021
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
However, she says it soon transpired "they weren't quite the eggheads we thought they were".
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
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
As someone who doesn’t start his day with a crossword or, heaven forbid, an acrostic, I felt as though I had wandered into a tribe of idle eggheads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2020
“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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