cognoscenti

Soccer cognoscenti describe his economy of movement, the intelligence of his runs, the subtlety of his touch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The curling cognoscenti reckon six wins in the nine round-robin games could be enough to earn a place in Monday's last four, and the GB duo are well on the way.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

Mair, Foster Bodorff and three other local tree cognoscenti formed a semicircle around Van Pelt’s Paul Bunyanesque figure, with a bushy beard once bright red turned white.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

Chief among the concerns of Disneyland’s cognoscenti will be the fate of the ride’s large number of audio-animatronic critters, many of which were rescued from the 1970s-era America Sings attraction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023

He has independent p. 3means, and from time to time entertains English and foreign cognoscenti with elegant simplicity at his wonderful house in Kensington. 

From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross

But if you’re a pizza cognoscente, or even a bread baker, you’ll recognize that this tomato pie is the work of cooks who are punctilious about their dough.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

“For the past 35 years, I have been focused, singularly, on becoming a cognoscente, on knowing everything possible about the classical arts,” Munday said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2019

Liz Goldwyn is, in fact, a film-world royal — her grandfather was the Hollywood kingpin Samuel Goldwyn — not to mention a fashion-world darling and an art-world cognoscente.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2014

Whether it's intuition or a great eye, her ability to connect with her buyer--generally a fashion cognoscente with a taste for understated glamour--appears to be unerring.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That," was the reply, "is the abate de Crucis, a scholar and cognoscente, as you perceive, and at present attached to the household of the Papal Nuncio."

From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton