I Know that the policy wonk is the best on EVERY issue. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential hopefuls eye the economy] Reference
I became acquainted with someone I call my plant "wonk" -- a walking human thinktank of botany named Eric. From Wordnik.com. [Danielle Crittenden: Help, My Botanical Clock Is Ticking!] Reference
Bill was now what you'd call a wonk and looked the part. From Wordnik.com. [The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy] Reference
What typifies the wonk is their utter unawareness of the world and people around them. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
I would love it if you'd stop using the word "wonk". From Wordnik.com. [Joe Fitzgibbon Gets Boeing Union and Grocery Worker Endorsements « PubliCola] Reference
And so the city "wonk" allowed his cyber quack LOVER to RUN WITH IT. From Wordnik.com. [City Council Stands Up To ACLU on Behalf of LAPD and The City] Reference
Because, when you're a "wonk" everyone works for government and feeds off the public udder. From Wordnik.com. [The Straw Man and Prop R] Reference
Clinton was a consummate "wonk", but he knew he had to connect before doing his policy laundry lists. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
She's supposedly some policy "wonk" and its been all about disparaging obama and the campaign that he has run. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Clinton: Are Caucuses More Important Than Primaries?] Reference
In fact, the word "wonk" in itself, suggests the disparaging attitude that society has embraced towards knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Conservative Corruption of Progressive Thought] Reference
He endlessly recycles boilerplate and fictitious straw men and this is interpreted as excessively educated 'wonk'?. From Wordnik.com. [Why racial attitudes that helped Barack Obama will hurt Bobby Jindal.] Reference
I'm up against some policy wonk from the IPPR. From Wordnik.com. [On Radio 5 Live at 11pm Tonight] Reference
(Though DCist didn't use the word "wonk", it may as well have.). From Wordnik.com. [NBC Washington - Top Stories] Reference
Dems advised to leave their 'wonk' at home to help win at voting booth. From Wordnik.com. [Home/News] Reference
The "wonk" has almost 7,000 followers, and after a hard day at the corner store, sometimes he fells like a "?". From Wordnik.com. [iTnews Australia] Reference
Borderstan, which also uses the word "wonk" to describe Gray, also notes his reluctance to commit on Rhee and Lanier. From Wordnik.com. [NBC Washington - Top Stories] Reference
Talk about the issues, but don't be a policy wonk. From Wordnik.com. [FAMILY: THE ABC'S OF VOTING] Reference
You don't need to be a policy wonk to appreciate that. From Wordnik.com. [AMERICA'S 25 HOT SCHOOLS] Reference
What should be avoided, besides policy-wonk and pure-policy discourse?. From Wordnik.com. [George Lakoff: The Cry for Democratic Moral Leadership and Effective Communication] Reference
He has always been a policy wonk who enjoyed the details of legislating. From Wordnik.com. [CHENEY FAMILY VALUES] Reference
By their very nature, the ClintonGore bus trips were anti-wonk exercises. From Wordnik.com. [The Caricature Wars] Reference
But this isn't just a work of theory; Miller is a practicing corporate and policy wonk. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny Of Old Ideas] Reference
In the Roosevelt Room, a policy-wonk president happily went over the budget line by line. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference
Until now, however, voters seem underwhelmed by this meticulous, professorial policy wonk. From Wordnik.com. [Lula's Long Road] Reference
Osborne's favorable reviews helped establish Clinton with the thinktank and policy-wonk set. From Wordnik.com. [THE INNER CIRCLE] Reference
Then some marketing wonk at HTS (remember that channel?) made a decision that would change my life. From Wordnik.com. [An introduction from a Caps blogger] Reference
Like the two brightest kids in class, they "try to out-wonk each other," says a senior administration aide. From Wordnik.com. [Missing The Moment] Reference
Don't expect Bill Clinton — a formidable political strategist and policy wonk — to hover quietly in the background. From Wordnik.com. [And You Do What, Exactly?] Reference
He is the wonk who listens, a role he enjoys, and one he learned by heart when he went down to Tennessee to get himself elected. From Wordnik.com. [Al Gore’S Best Hope] Reference
Many blogs out of Silicon Valley already wonder whether Genachowski is really a digital whiz kid or just another Washington wonk. From Wordnik.com. [The Web Masters] Reference
Friends predict she will take speaking lessons (as he did some years ago) so that her speeches are less like policy-wonk laundry lists. From Wordnik.com. [Is America Ready?] Reference
No one will ever accuse Reich of being an economic-policy wonk, and of late he has been devoting more of his time to the rot in Colombia. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Man For Latam?] Reference
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