wonky

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A consumer device for the masses and Nvidia’s wonky supercomputer systems might seem to have little in common.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The idea sounds a bit wonky, but it’s been floated by other prominent leaders as well.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

But Rotem Naftalovich, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, one of the three researchers involved, said the US food regulator was nonplussed by the admittedly "wonky" idea.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

The wonky part of this is that there’s a presumption of regularity, right?

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2025

Somehow, in all the world, with all the people in it, in all their wonky shapes, they were shaped to fit each other.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri