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wonk
[ wongk ]
noun
- a student who spends much time studying and has little or no social life; grind.
- a stupid, boring, or unattractive person.
- a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner:
They’re searching for a policy wonk to lead the economic institute’s think tank.
wonk
/ ɒŋ /
noun
- informal.a person who is obsessively interested in a specified subject
a foreign policy wonk
Other Word Forms
- ɴDz· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of wonk1
Word History and Origins
Origin of wonk1
Example Sentences
Facts are great when you’re a lawyer in court or when you’re a wonk writing policy briefs and refining legislative language.
Are they academics, scholars and scientists, or do they also include those of less elevated standing — technocrats, policy wonks, apparatchiks, pundits, journalists — who command a sizable public audience?
“Am I a policy wonk? No, but I do approach this from a very business-minded, fiscally conservative perspective.”
The media will, no doubt, lean into Walz’s experience as a football coach — in 1999 he helped Mankato West win a state championship and political wonks love a good sports metaphor.
It sounds like the makings of theater for wonks, doesn’t it?
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