computer geek

Example Sentences

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By the next semester, Toner-Rodgers pitched the idea to Autor, a leading labor economist and self-described computer geek who for years had been mulling how AI might shape employment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

A computer geek probably could have figured out a faster way to get to our first communication with one another on Facebook's Messenger, but I just went the old-school route.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2022

“As far as we knew, he was kind of a computer geek that worked at home,” Steve Schmoldt, a neighbor, told the Nashville newspaper, the Tennessean.

From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2020

“I’m sure your computer geek experts can just type on the keyboard and move me down the line,” Strasmore tells DirecTV’s people in the distribution and acquisitions department.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2018

I told him he was doing a brave thing; that he had many assets—intelligence and wit, good looks, personality—and that, as a computer geek, he was in the storied right place at the right time.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz