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- noun Plural form of
wonk .
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Examples
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Nick & Norah that truly reasonate come when the characters discuss bands completely invented by Levithan and Cohn - in other words, music that can't be turned up or down or switched around by label wonks).
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2008
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Nick & Norah that truly reasonate come when the characters discuss bands completely invented by Levithan and Cohn - in other words, music that can't be turned up or down or switched around by label wonks).
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2008
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The very bad news is that an overwhelming 88 percent oppose the solution backed by nearly all policy wonks, which is to mix tax hikes with benefit reductions.
Forbes.com: News Howard Gleckman 2010
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Most legitimate "wonks" I know are open to criticism of their methods.
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But the Product Party is a political party full of boring policy "wonks" holding community meetings where hours are spent arguing the best and most democratic ways to provide services and, well, fix those potholes and even working on the finer points of health care finance administration management policies subsection 3, paragraph ... ... and who wants to hear about THAT?
Dave Johnson and James Boyce: America's Two Party System: The Marketing Party and The Product Party 2008
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Instead of addressing the substantive issues, the policy "wonks" of Central Office have written a facile and enormously trivial "attack" briefing, which offers an almost childish view of the "benefits" of EU membership.
The attack of the teenage scribblers Richard 2004
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Besides the priests, the pariah dogs, or "wonks," watched our meal with intense interest.
Peking Dust Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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Getting the "wonks" and "geeks" talking in the same language is the first challenge.
unknown title 2011
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This is one of the big benefits of the Summit - spending time with the policy "wonks"
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This is one of the big benefits of the Summit - spending time with the policy "wonks"
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