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She was always a bookworm when she was a kid.
a bookworm who prefers reading to just about any other activity
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Liang Wenfeng hires young people and bookworms for his engineering team, and is described as a humble and nerdy leader.
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2025
Comic fans and color-loving bookworms pretty much had to wait for Kaleido and Gallery iterations for something more visually satisfying.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
The first broad generation of American economists, of the Gilded Age, were nebbish cloistered bookworms who missed out on being a doer in the greatest era of being a doer, the industrial revolution.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Reading boasts bookworms with an improved vocabulary, knowledge and creativity, among other characteristics.
—Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2024
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2025
Comic fans and color-loving bookworms pretty much had to wait for Kaleido and Gallery iterations for something more visually satisfying.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
The first broad generation of American economists, of the Gilded Age, were nebbish cloistered bookworms who missed out on being a doer in the greatest era of being a doer, the industrial revolution.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Reading boasts bookworms with an improved vocabulary, knowledge and creativity, among other characteristics.
—Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Bookworm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bookworm. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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bookworm
noun
book·worm
-ˌwərm 
1
: any of various insect larvae that feed on the binding and paste of books
2
: a person devoted to reading or study
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