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Example sentences for: maven

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William Safire Language Maven Strikes Again.
Quoth the Maven
Like clockword--I mean clockwork , of course--Bill Safire's books come down the pike, each inscribed with a friendly greeting from the man described as “the language maven.”
More important, even VandeHei eventually admits they wouldn't be particularly unqualified: Baxter, he notes, is a "defense maven" who has "written for Jane's Intelligence Review " and "chairs a ballistic missile defense advisory group for Representative Curt Weldon."
And right next to that piece is an op-ed by Washington-based public ethics maven Charles Lewis.