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Example sentences for: nerd

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But one of the greatest upheavals of the century is the liberation of the nerd.
In arty circles, he's famous as the highbrow exhibitionist who wrote and starred in My Dinner With Andre , but there's more to Shawn than grandiose nerd angst.
They lack the nerd's enterprise and obsessivesness.
Nobody--not William Safire, not the Oxford English Dictionary --has concretely pinned down the origin of the word nerd . One theory traces it to a throwaway passage in Dr. Seuss' lesser-known 1950 children's book If I Ran the Zoo . Another considers it a variation of the 1940s put-down nerts to you , as in "nuts to you."
Nebbish," Franklin Foer presents a few alternative explanations for the origin of the word "nerd."