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egghead

[eg-hed] / ˈɛgˌhɛd /


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Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Bump is a columnist for The Washington Post with a 1950s egghead vibe who writes an appealing newsletter called How to Read This Chart.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2023

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

The recruiter had explained it, but you wanted to get it from the egghead, not the Parental Unit Liaison.

From Slate May 30, 2020

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




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