How to Use wonk in a Sentence

wonk

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  • The biggest race in the District this year may be a war of the wonks.
    — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • This slip-up aside, Kolle has become quite the knot wonk.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
  • To cash in on your inner wonk, try sites like JustAnswer.com.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The execs, wonks, and writers came in time, but NBA diehards were the first rush.
    — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Ask Clay: What is the difference between a geek and a nerd and wonk?
    — John D'anna, azcentral, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Despite their sketchy record on the topic, wonks are still on the hunt for the new Mr Median.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • And as countless health wonks have noted, there are lots of problems with that.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 16 June 2019
  • It's got a cool, futuristic wonk to its mid-aught synth vibes.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2018
  • He was better suited as sort of a policy wonk and ideas guy.
    — Fox News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • This is far from an exhaustive list, and Mr. Trump won’t win as a policy wonk in any case.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • Message Extraction From the first announcement, the project drew in an army of nerds and puzzle wonks.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Consumers aren’t stressing out Policy wonks and bankers keep a close eye on all things Fed.
    — Susan Tompor, ajc, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Consumers aren't stressing out Policy wonks and bankers keep a close eye on all-things Fed.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In the lead-up to the midterm elections, President Donald Trump has gone full policy wonk.
    — Catherine Lucey, The Seattle Times, 27 Oct. 2018
  • There was once a time when big room feels were everything dance fans craved, but since 2013, the dance floor has moved on to machine gun trap and future bass wonk.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018
  • He’s always been a back-slapping salesman more than an Obama-style wonk.
    — Doyle McManus Washington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Finishing lessons Finland’s decline may make the wonks who rushed to copy its schools seem silly.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Special economic zones and tax reform are among the wheezes his wonks propose.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Taking the money and then giving it back, in an endless game of bureaucratic whirligig, does not seem to grab them the way it grabs wonks.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 22 June 2018
  • Perhaps that label will no longer be applied to a bunch of hapless wonks and economists.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The sweet and sour producer's latest single hooks with fat synth melodies only to fall hard on some real, nasty wonk.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2017
  • This is especially nice news because transit wonks say the city has the freshest approach to transit in the US.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 1 Mar. 2020
  • At first glance, this might seem most relevant to economists and other wonks.
    — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The paper on telecoms was co-written by in-house wonks and external academics.
    — The Economist, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Who in the wide world of baseball wonk-itude knows exactly what to make of Billy R. Hamilton, baseball’s fastest human, who gets on base as much as the grounds crew?
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2018
  • The wonks on Wall Street, of course, are fearing that wage gains would lead to inflationary pressures — and force the Federal Reserve to raise rates even more in 2018.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2018
  • In contrast to Peterson, Justin Roczniak is a wonk who likes to riff on the minutiae of city planning.
    — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 2 July 2019
  • On the issues Moore has described himself as a policy wonk who will get into the weeds of governing.
    — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2022
  • But as a policy wonk and politician, Warren has often been much more of a pragmatist than Sanders.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • On Wednesday, Soules painted himself as a policy wonk of sorts.
    — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Jan. 2018

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