wonk
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The case is yet another example of Carr’s dramatic transformation from a low-key communications policy wonk into one of Trump’s staunchest cultural warriors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
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
