egghead
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Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Individual investors and savers, however, don’t need some economic egghead to give a recession an official stamp of approval.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2022
Now I’m trapped in this little egghead house, this house of geeks.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2021
The head of E. electricus looks like the letter “u,” whereas that of E. voltai was more ovular — an egghead.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
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
It’s high time that a prominent nonlawyer take a turn at this critique of the Roberts court, and it’s clear that Walz may succeed where all of us polite eggheads have failed.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024
I’ve heard us called egglets—children of the eggheads.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
