egghead

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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

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

And the egghead teams that aren’t at all watchable, such as Vanderbilt in the SEC and Northwestern in the Big Ten?

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2022

Call me an egghead, but that's how I see it.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris