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nerds
Alternative clues for the word nerds
- Revenge-seekers of film
- New Hebrides regularly excluded the socially inept
- Bookworms, maybe
- Revengers in a recent film
- Computer geeks
- They're not in the in crowd
- Bullies' targets
- Certain school clique
- Tech entrepreneurs, stereotypically
- Those celebrated on the podcast "Fantastic Geeks (and Where to Find Them)"
Usage examples of nerds.
There may be, proportionately, many more nerds among scientists than among backhoe operators or fashion designers or traffic wardens.
Scientists are nerds, socially inept, working on incomprehensible subjects that no normal person would find in any way interesting - even if he were willing to invest the time required, which, again, no sensible person would.
Norman Conquest involved a horde of high-belted, pocket-protected, calculator-carrying nerds with broken glasses invading England.
There are more boy nerds than girl nerds, but there are plenty of both.
So those who find nerds distasteful, but at the same time crave the products of science, face a kind of dilemma.
Subsidize not the curiosity of the nerds, but what will benefit society.