Example Sentences

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What's a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare "brat" a word of the year?

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

Which is a reminder even to the eggheads that no one has ever won the Ryder Cup on a spreadsheet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 26, 2025

Gone were the fluffy perms that are the definers of K-pop stardom - here instead were "eggheads", anonymised buzzcuts of soldiers on the frontline.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2023

The first half of “NASA Archives” reflects that vision of postwar America, flyboys with buzz cuts and aviator sunglasses, eggheads in headsets flipping switches at mission control.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2019

“Didn’t you see the news yesterday? Some eggheads at Warwick College certified him as a genius with an IQ that’s off the charts!”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein