bluestocking

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Recent Examples of bluestocking But Peck is already aware of Imogen's penchant for pandemonium, resisting the task of baby-sitting a bluestocking. Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023 The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 But the most charming of all are West's distinctive set of sisters — a hopeless romantic, a bluestocking, a fashion maven, a tomboy, and a perfect lady. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022 One of them was the famous 18th-century bluestocking Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of Edward Montagu, a British ambassador. David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left. Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020 Astrid hews to ideas that earn her the label of bluestocking, but Howard makes those qualities utterly desirable in Thane’s eyes. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bluestocking
Noun
  • Through cooperation with right-wing intellectuals abroad, the Danube Institute has proved instrumental in promoting the culturally conservative vision of Orbán's Hungary.
    Flora Garamvolgyi, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Other artists, writers and intellectuals sought to counter the industrial status quo.
    Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Richie Grainge herself has evolved her stylistic approach from an ostentatious Los Angeleno verve into a look that’s more low-key highbrow.
    Nick Remsen, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • No word better sums up our quixotic hopes for the visual, uniting the lowbrow (video-game headsets, van Gogh warehouses), the highbrow (Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms, James Turrell’s light installations), and the middlebrow (Alfonso Cuarón’s Steadicam jaunts, James Cameron’s 3-D extravaganzas).
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • The player’s gear — 25 rackets and more than 30 shirts — was ground up and turned into a camo-like speckled composite in tones of blue that was used for the bezel and case of the 42-mm timepiece.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
  • In 2020, Democrats flipped the state blue after unexpectedly losing it to Trump in 2016.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Here was the kind of culmination of this school nerd’s dream to go.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
  • And now, Survivor stat nerds are left in a conundrum.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For those seeking a more professional edge, the Tormek T1 is gaining attention among knife geeks.
    David Hochman, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • If Halloween brings out the freaks, Red October brings out the sports geeks.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024

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“Bluestocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluestocking. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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