nerd

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Silicon Valley’s success and mythmaking long ago transformed the once-ridiculed computer nerd into the cool tech bro.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

It gave us an opportunity to nerd out and say, “We’re in the ’20s and ’30s, now we’re in the ’60s” and really play with the form.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

To challenge that, he made Clark Kent a nerd, hunching his shoulders, making him sputter with nervousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

"My kids call me a neek," she joked, "it's a cross between a geek and a nerd".

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026

Boaz, the handsome nerd who could not show up on time if his life depended on it, knew something she did not, in her cinema.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny