aficionado
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"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
She was the first to speak and declared, “Any school that could produce such a well-rounded aficionado of ferns must be doing a superb job. I vote to keep Swanburne Swanburne!”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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