egghead
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After three years with the Baltimore Ravens, the offensive lineman who was listed at 6-foot-3 and 313 pounds ditched his helmet to become a professional egghead in 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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
Last, it essentially represents a bunch of elite eggheads saying “trust us, we’re different now” when no one trusts them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
Gone were the fluffy perms that are the definers of K-pop stardom - here instead were "eggheads", anonymised buzzcuts of soldiers on the frontline.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2023
I’ve heard us called egglets—children of the eggheads.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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