Example Sentences

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Then, Anna helps break down the economic crisis that is unfolding in Brazil and gets wonkish on the latest Fed rate cut and trade deficit.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2024

It’s a common stage in the life cycle of a certain kind of wonkish professional.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2022

He also agreed that the book attempts to negotiate the fine line between being a wonkish academic treatise, and being over-distilled — and it may not always succeed to people’s tastes on either side.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2021

“These words that we’re using are so wonkish; they’re not good a conveying the scale and the grandeur of what’s happening here,” Booker said in an interview.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2021

Stuart Hutchison, thirty- four, attired in a Ren and Stimpy T-shirt, was a cerebral, somewhat wonkish Canadian cardiologist on leave from a research fellowship.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer