Example Sentences

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Blue checks used to be a creative class status symbol, and now they’re for dweebs who pay for a free website.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

To the dominant culture, they were dweebs, then Satanists, then back to dweebs.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

This time around, our hosts were two lovable dweebs with great pipes, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles, opening the show on head-to-head grand pianos.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

Apple fanboys and Android dweebs can find common ground in their Minecraft glee.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2014

If I stayed in the after-school rock band, it’d just be me and John playing “The Final Countdown” at the spring concert, with Mr. B playing drums, and we’d look like the world’s biggest dweebs.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio