aficionado
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Like the good student and healthcare aficionado I am, I did everything “right.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was that exact spirit of inquiry, within an article about the history of the doo-wop revival, that caught the attention of another doo-wop aficionado from South Jersey.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
"I'm not really a musical expert or aficionado," he says.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Foley fancies himself something of a hot sauce aficionado, saying he adds Frank’s RedHot on everything from leftover beef stew to chicken chili.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
Beyond hedging, Kalshi said that its new markets also provide retail speculators and casual art aficionados a way to get in on the auction action.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
So far, so forgettable for those fans who aren't MLS aficionados.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Montoya said something about what great aficionados we were, and that we wanted to wish him luck.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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