wonk
Example Sentences
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Those wonks in turn say representing rock stars and pop icons makes their job more appealing.
Colleagues, including some Republicans, describe her as reasonable and a policy wonk who loves spreadsheets.
From Los Angeles Times
Even for policy wonks, it’s a challenge to keep up with the cadence of discounts and negotiated prices while deciphering what is merely optics and what represents actual savings.
From MarketWatch
Analytically minded front offices, full of Ivy League data wonks with little or no playing experience, have far less reverence for baseball orthodoxy and have begun looking for talent in unusual places.
That’s what makes the Rockies the Holy Grail for the math wonks and Ivy League whiz kids who make up baseball’s executive class.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
