geek
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If you’ve heard of Schlesinger at all — and aren’t a power-pop geek or a “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” superfan — it was likely through his band Fountains of Wayne and their 2003 hit “Stacy’s Mom.”
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Freese is an unabashed data geek from a family of scientists who finished his economics degree while playing professionally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Economist Savvas Savouri is a self-confessed data geek: “I live and breathe numbers,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
James, the son of a fisherman, was bombastic with an entrepreneurial streak, while Martin was the more reserved beer geek.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
He had once been a science geek, but the sixties had changed that.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Bond geeks have lots of measures that ought to allow us to tease apart the two stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
The problem for data geeks like Savouri, however, and for investors, is the increasingly unreliable raw material that governments are providing them.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 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
For geeks, both politics and journalism represent—in Jesse’s words—“an insane and useless” system that has little bearing on their lives.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
