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Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is coming off some good weeks of press coverage in which reporters trumpeted his plan for homelessness uncritically and presented him as a low-key policy wonk.

A few tax wonks predicted that workers who were most likely to struggle financially in old age wouldn’t open the accounts because they couldn’t afford to save.

Think tanks and nonprofits have published research, and policy wonks have discussed it at conferences.

Known as a “health care wonk,” Becerra was an original co-sponsor of the Affordable Care Act.

Policy wonks can talk about history and cite all the studies they want, but for some people, this is not remotely theoretical.

But if the leader fails to gain acceptance, then the budget details are nothing more than wonk-trivia.

He hired a disaffected ex-Democratic wonk as his top social-policy guy.

He saw a problem, and—as a self-proclaimed “wonk”—immediately moved to solve it.

When did knowing how the federal government works, how the budget works, become impressive for a policy wonk?

But before long, Morgan was ready to get off the wonk and back to the Oval Office.

The notes are moderately high-pitched and resemble "wonk-wonk-wonk."

It was called the Wank (pronounced Wonk) and was an Armenian monastery, half farm, half stronghold.