aficionado

"I'm not really a musical expert or aficionado," he says.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

He could move with the grace of the tango aficionado he became or with the slow, pained gait of the cancer-ridden editor he played in “The Paper.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

If he’s an aficionado of fiction, there’s quite a few in the latest Booker Prize shortlist.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026

Bartlett, on the other hand, says he is a longtime soccer aficionado who stumbled upon the canceled Total 90 trademark while looking up names for a soccer fantasy app he wanted to develop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

Mary asked Helen, an aficionado of the outdoors, to take Janice trekking with a full backpack, first on Buckroe Beach, then up into Virginia’s Shenandoah mountains.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

First erected in the early 1960s as an advertising gimmick, these giants are rising again thanks to preservationists, kitsch aficionados and savvy entrepreneurs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

He went to bat for gummy aficionados during oral argument.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

Thrust into a position that was not his, Bradley had to endure the jeers of frenzied aficionados at the start of his professional career, along with spitting and tossed coins.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

Some aficionados would still prefer the real thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Those who were aficionados could always get rooms even when the hotel was full.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway