nerd

Example Sentences

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Silicon Valley’s success and mythmaking long ago transformed the once-ridiculed computer nerd into the cool tech bro.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

Sentimental Value was named best international feature, and director Joachim Trier joked: "I'm just a film nerd from Norway, this means so much."

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

I’m a slow, biased bike nerd, but I agree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

To challenge that, he made Clark Kent a nerd, hunching his shoulders, making him sputter with nervousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

He might seem like a nerd, he once told me, but he saw himself as “an action kind of guy.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French