egghead
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Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
You don’t need to be an egghead to crack the Slate News Quiz.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025
A professor who refused to be an ivory tower egghead, Brustein didn’t simply respond to the art of his day but helped shape it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Was it a satire of a certain brand of charismatic egghead?
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
Call me an egghead, but that's how I see it.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
What's a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare "brat" a word of the year?
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
And finally, they’ll be able to answer a question that Ivy League eggheads have been pondering for a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
However, she says it soon transpired "they weren't quite the eggheads we thought they were".
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
As someone who doesn’t start his day with a crossword or, heaven forbid, an acrostic, I felt as though I had wandered into a tribe of idle eggheads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2020
I’ve heard us called egglets—children of the eggheads.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
