as in nerd
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
a bookworm who prefers reading to just about any other activity
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Kindle Paperwhite Even paper bookworms rave about the quality of the Kindle Paperwhite.
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Clara McMahon, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
Liang Wenfeng hires young people and bookworms for his engineering team, and is described as a humble and nerdy leader.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2025
Comic fans and color-loving bookworms pretty much had to wait for Kaleido and Gallery iterations for something more visually satisfying.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
The first broad generation of American economists, of the Gilded Age, were nebbish cloistered bookworms who missed out on being a doer in the greatest era of being a doer, the industrial revolution.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Clara McMahon, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
Liang Wenfeng hires young people and bookworms for his engineering team, and is described as a humble and nerdy leader.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2025
Comic fans and color-loving bookworms pretty much had to wait for Kaleido and Gallery iterations for something more visually satisfying.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
The first broad generation of American economists, of the Gilded Age, were nebbish cloistered bookworms who missed out on being a doer in the greatest era of being a doer, the industrial revolution.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Bookworm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookworm. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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