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[geek] / gik /


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The self-confessed military history geek was on a trip with fellow enthusiasts and realised a big flaw in online dating apps.

From BBC May 21, 2026

“Being a golf architecture geek, when you find information like that, it’s a treasure trove that you can’t help but get excited by.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

Economist Savvas Savouri is a self-confessed data geek: “I live and breathe numbers,” he says.

From MarketWatch Apr. 15, 2026

But to my eyes, this fandom appears to be a place where anyone is welcome to fantasize, dream, draw, speculate or just plain geek out.

From Salon Apr. 12, 2026

ALBUS: You really are an enormous geek, you know that?

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

This might not come as a surprise to the geeks who eat, breathe and sleep all things retirement.

From MarketWatch May 14, 2026

These geeks – a term I use lovingly, for the most part – protected the notion of canon as fiercely as their lunchbox collections.

From Salon May 5, 2026

One corner of Sundance was just for the geeks: the Holiday Village Cinemas, a humble quadraplex that hosted press and industry screenings from breakfast till dark.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2026

The annual event sees tech geeks test gear, including drones, atomic clocks antennas and chips, against jamming in the harsh Arctic climate.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 27, 2025

So lab-coated geeks got together and decided Mars's elevation zero is wherever the air pressure is 610.5 pascals.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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