nerdish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerdish
Adjective
  • This helps the church establish leaders, college presidents and intellectual leaders.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • After graduating from Harvard Law School, Clement clerked for the federal appeals-court judge Laurence Silberman, the intellectual godfather to generations of conservative lawyers, and then for Justice Antonin Scalia.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Our cerebral circuitry changes constantly—every day, new links are made amongst the 86 billion individual neurons in our heads, and old connections are allowed to fall away.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Challenging, cerebral, but without taking itself too seriously?
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Pedagogies Asking Scholarly Questions with JSTOR Daily Help students develop analytic and scholarly questioning skills using a quick activity built on JSTOR Daily roundups and syllabi.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Here are four ways that scholars can broaden the impact of scholarly research at this particularly moment in time.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Nerdish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerdish. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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