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aficionado

[uh-fish-yuh-nah-doh, ah-fee-thyaw-nah-thaw, ah-fee-syaw-] / əˌfɪʃ jəˈnɑ doʊ, ɑˌfi θjɔˈnɑ ðɔ, ɑˌfi sjɔ- /


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Some retail investors, like this videogame aficionado, made a killing, but there are reasons to take a sobering look at AI.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

"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

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

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

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

Their dog-like robot, Spot, has become something of an online icon among tech aficionados, with millions of YouTube views.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

To understand Mr. Trump is to recall the “negative capability” that aficionados once talked about in examining a piece of art: What is the lack that it points to?

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

It is these aficionados, these rêveurs, who see the details in the bigger picture of the circus.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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