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Значения термина wonk на английском

An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.

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Examples for "grind"
Examples for "grind"
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They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
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The 'two days before payday' grind would be easier, if not gone.
Radio NZ
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The walnut-crusher shifts gear into a final grind-into-mush setting: Capital Laundry Services?
Equoid
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Gottta love a man who knows the value of a good grind.
Love, life and linguine
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The mills of the gods in the Interior Department grind very slowly.
The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief
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Years earlier, he had become a self-proclaimed coffee nerd almost by accident.
The Irish Times
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What's the point being a nerd if you cannot learn such things?
Wired
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One player is eliminated each week in a test of nerd-related skill.
Wired
4
Mitch from Real Genius: Perhaps the truest warts-and-all depiction of a nerd.
Wired
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Reuters: Do you think that being a math nerd is an advantage?
Reuters
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What's the best way to protect my laptop without looking like a dweeb?
NY Magazine
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Today I look back on pre-lockdown Romesh as some sort of caffeine-fearing dweeb.
The Guardian
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Allow me to become a keyboard-thumping dweeb for a few minutes.
The Irish Times
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So I can be a dweeb loser on a different coast?
Brain jack
5
Not on a first date, and certainly not with a dweeb like Kevin Traherne.
White fire
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He is, in other words, that person mocked by Johnson: a swot.
The Guardian
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He was the clear winner, beating loyal swot Hermione Granger into second place.
The Guardian
3
You fellows swot, and I sit in the orchestra chairs.
The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
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Even though he was a bit of a swot and not much good at games.
Eyeless in Gaza
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Second and most importantly, I'm going to swot up on all the world history I can.
The Irish Times
Использование термина wonk на английском
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I'm not a policy wonk, I don't know how to fix it.
The new yorker
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You don't have to be a game show wonk to follow it.
Reuters
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One Mercedes wonk recently put driver input at 20 per cent.
The Irish Times
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A smiling Bush connected more easily than serious super-wonk Al Gore.
The Guardian
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Translated from the wonk, that means no more intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Wired
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Bergmann, a Gestapo wonk, gives murderous orders from behind his desk and maps.
The Irish Times
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When it came to privatization, wonk seemed to be working out better than swashbuckler.
Confessions of a wall street analyst: a true story of inside inf...
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Hillary Clinton is a hugely knowledgeable policy wonk but is not a natural performer.
Radio NZ
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Until now she's been a policy wonk, consultant and strategist.
The Guardian
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George turned to Mark Bowman, one of his policy wonk sidekicks at the Treasury.
The Guardian
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But almost immediately, he starts to wonk out with Ray Hayes, the lab's white-bearded manager.
Wired
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There are other aspects of the white paper that command the attention of a surveillance wonk.
The Guardian
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He's never been an engineer, a designer, a supply channel manager, or even a telecommunications wonk.
Wired
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I'm having dinner with a government statistics wonk on Wednesday, and will be sure to ask him.
Reuters
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Photo: AFP One was a policy wonk, a deep thinker and with some strong conservative social views.
Radio NZ
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We posted an article on hydrogen fuels by energy policy wonk Robert Zubrin a little while ago.
Wired
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