bluestocking

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Recent Examples of bluestocking But Peck is already aware of Imogen's penchant for pandemonium, resisting the task of baby-sitting a bluestocking. Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023 The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 But the most charming of all are West's distinctive set of sisters — a hopeless romantic, a bluestocking, a fashion maven, a tomboy, and a perfect lady. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022 One of them was the famous 18th-century bluestocking Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of Edward Montagu, a British ambassador. David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left. Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020 Astrid hews to ideas that earn her the label of bluestocking, but Howard makes those qualities utterly desirable in Thane’s eyes. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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Noun
  • The proudly backward were validated by self-loathing Western intellectuals, leading philosophers such as Michel Foucault who saw in the revolution a thrilling rebuke to liberal democracy when communism no longer was.
    Mariam Memarsadeghi, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Nobody escaped his pen: the Church, intellectuals, politics, politicians and governments, kings and queens.
    Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Wagner would be a sleepless highbrow’s favorite; the long, lush, unbroken lines of music share with the white-noise hum of the air-conditioner or the thrum of the painstaking lecture the quality of being absorbing without offering undue eventfulness.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Richie Grainge herself has evolved her stylistic approach from an ostentatious Los Angeleno verve into a look that’s more low-key highbrow.
    Nick Remsen, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Gospel, blues, pop, R&B, and rock ‘n’ roll were all represented at the festival because Black culture was not, and never will be, a monolith.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
  • As a police union boss, Jim Palmer has the ultimate duty to support the well-being of over 10,000 men and women in blue throughout Wisconsin.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Henry Cavill, noted Warhammer nerd, to star in and produce Warhammer 40,000 series at Amazon Then a father-to-be, Cavill shared a snap of himself in front of the baby's crib, while asking his followers for fatherly advice.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Older internet vernacular involved quoting memes or making references to nerd culture, but brain rot offers strange sentence constructions and rhetorical tics with a broad range of possible applications.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For some design geeks, however, the heart and soul of L.A.’s architecture resides not just in its museums and office towers but also in its exalted, often otherworldly houses.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • As the craft beer market evolved, so too did Firestone Walker, not just with nerdy beer geeks seeking limited releases, but also with a broader beer loving crowd.
    Don Tse, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025

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“Bluestocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluestocking. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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