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Usage examples of nerd.

Greg proved many of the generalizations about science nerds, but the city was damned lucky to have someone this smart.

Starship Captain stood in the spotlight at the end of the runway turning round, round, round, looking out over the Ralfies and the globuloids, the computer nerds and the costumers, the brilliant intellectual misfits and the teenage malcontents, the fans who would be slans.

Martins caught the fancy of Kelly Ripa, who promoted it through her Reading with Ripa Book Club in 2003, with many successful Nerds following.

Jefferson was a polymath, an autodidact, a nerd literally without peer.

Usually run by some dumb nerd with a subscription to Variety who learned about movies by doing the Universal Studios tour.

Audio-Visual nerds Allison and her girlfriends used to laugh at in high school.

The New Age Gurus, Crystal Channeling Fruitcakes, and Born Again Lemurians, versus the Stink Tank Futurologists, Sci-Fi Nerds, and Cyberwonks!

Her speech is improving too, but she needs surgery on her jaw-I would mention the temporomandibular joint, but only a nerd would understand the term-so that her mouth will be able to move for better enunciation.

In my experience, most drek-hot deckers start off as the stereotypical computer nerd.

There may be, proportionately, many more nerds among scientists than among backhoe operators or fashion designers or traffic wardens.

The latter on the chaos we know as cyberspace and on user-averse technologies developed by geeks and nerds, rather than by marketers, users, and librarians.

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.