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

Benjamin Brundage hadn’t always been a computer nerd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

In 1987, Mr. Birney’s Conor is a happy nerd, comfortably living alone in a small Baltimore house with a shelf of videotapes and other amusements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

"My kids call me a neek," she joked, "it's a cross between a geek and a nerd".

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026

‘It’s a cross between nerd and geek. They don’t like me because I only talk big. I’m trying to learn how to talk small. But it’s hard.’

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd