wonk

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Colleagues, including some Republicans, describe her as reasonable and a policy wonk who loves spreadsheets.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026

Facts are great when you’re a lawyer in court or when you’re a wonk writing policy briefs and refining legislative language.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2025

They also flesh out a portrait of Mr. Obama as a steady-as-she-goes, hyper-disciplined but not especially warm, policy wonk who scrolled the Brookings Institution website for ideas and had to overcome his own political mistakes.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Having arrived in Congress in 2007, he rose swiftly to leadership as a political strategist, not a policy wonk.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2023

If I said that, they’d think I was some kind of weather wonk.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein