aficionado

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

From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026

Yang, a car aficionado, wanted to give her 2-year-old son a close-up look at the factory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

I’m more aficionado than maniac, but I find them endlessly listenable, rewatchable — they just look great, for one thing — and interesting.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

From breakout comedians to beauty innovators, this year's nominees include jacket potato entrepreneurs, tap dancing brothers, a bus loving aunty, a BookTok aficionado and a film location fangirl.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway