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Recent Examples of bluestocking
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.
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Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
11 Sep. 2023
But Peck is already aware of Imogen's penchant for pandemonium, resisting the task of baby-sitting a bluestocking.
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Ew Staff,
EW.com,
10 May 2023
One of them was the famous 18th-century bluestocking Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of Edward Montagu, a British ambassador.
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David Pryce-Jones,
WSJ,
19 Aug. 2022
His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left.
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Nicholas M. Gallagher,
National Review,
21 Mar. 2020
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
11 Sep. 2023
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bluestocking
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Perched along the Sea of Marmara, the boutique property sits on the largest of the islands, Büyükada, whose Ottoman-era mansions are where intellectuals and aristocrats held court in the 19th century.
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Coffin, the co-creator and voice of the Minions, was born in France to Franco-Indonesian intellectuals who only turned on the TV for old movies.
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The typical barbeque fare and red-white-and-blue can be expected on Saturday, July 4, but many cities have big events planned for this historic Independence Day weekend.
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The only figure, man or woman, not shown wearing identical American-flag blue is the poet Phillis Wheatley, who wears a pastel shade and who also happens to be the only Black person featured in the gallery.
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In the film, the villain is not the Harvard nerds who initially shun Elle, but the ex-boyfriend who never saw her as anything more than a cardboard cutout of a girl with blonde hair and big boobs.
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Hunter Pence, a nerd at heart, spent money from his first paycheck to buy himself a gaming computer to play World of Warcraft.
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The weekend-afternoon sales events became a phenomenon, drawing crowds to marvel at his wide-ranging tastes — not just hardcore music geeks or bibliophiles, but appreciators of New York cultural lore.
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By now, however, most know him as the lovable, cello-playing geek Leonard Hofstadter who married the pretty blonde waitress.
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“Bluestocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluestocking. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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