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Recent Examples of gearhead
And while Bicester Heritage acts as a quiet and calm but highly productive group of car-adjacent businesses during the week, the Scramble sees thousands of gearheads descend.
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Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
There are gearheads who go and people with Instagram accounts devoted to their cars, but there are also people there like Kevin Kuzma, who lost his deceased mom’s 1957 Chevrolet 210.
—Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
While electric vehicles may be all the buzz at recent shows, there will be multiple exciting nameplates on display that appeal to the average gearhead who wants nothing to do with an EV.
—Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
For Harper’s, Kushner chronicles his adolescent gearhead flowering, as well as their time spent with the National Hot Rod Association—traveling from race to race, speaking with drivers, and basking in the fumes of cameraderie and funny cars.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 18 Nov. 2024
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Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
There are gearheads who go and people with Instagram accounts devoted to their cars, but there are also people there like Kevin Kuzma, who lost his deceased mom’s 1957 Chevrolet 210.
—Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
While electric vehicles may be all the buzz at recent shows, there will be multiple exciting nameplates on display that appeal to the average gearhead who wants nothing to do with an EV.
—Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
For Harper’s, Kushner chronicles his adolescent gearhead flowering, as well as their time spent with the National Hot Rod Association—traveling from race to race, speaking with drivers, and basking in the fumes of cameraderie and funny cars.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 18 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gearhead
Noun
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And the techie giants are in hot pursuit: F1 marks a brilliant breakthrough for Apple, and Amazon MGM before long will be unfurling a new Bond.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
10 July 2025
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Unsurprisingly, this chaos is being orchestrated by Lex, high up in his glass tower at LuthorCorp, with a Bluetooth headset and a team of black-uniformed techies at keyboards carrying out his commands.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
Noun
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The president's office named 22 ministers, many of whom were technocrats.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Mar. 2025
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Alas, technocrats keep grinding away at products that aim to increase your quality of life by a few percentage points by cutting out friction and inconvenience.—
Pete Cottell,
Wired News,
17 July 2025
Noun
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For the theater geeks, watch experimental shows at the Fringe Festival.—
Caroline Ritzie,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Some questions are for casual fans; others are strictly for the hardcore geeks.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
29 June 2025
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After thwarting an attack against the celebrated technophile, Franklin picks up a mysterious ring that Burrell has dropped and soon discovers the ring allows its possessor to travel 57 seconds into the past.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
22 May 2022
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People use the terms gearhead, geek, technocrat, and technophile interchangeably.—
Kim Komando,
USA TODAY,
14 Apr. 2022
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“Gearhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gearhead. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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