cognoscenti

The research lab was already known to Silicon Valley cognoscenti for having invented a personal computer called the Alto and the precursor to the Ethernet networking system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

It was designed by Pininfarina with bodywork by Scaglietti, both names immediately recognizable to Ferrari cognoscenti.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 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

When 23-year-old vocalist Samara Joy wowed the crowd at Seattle’s Jazz Alley last June, she was not widely known beyond the jazz cognoscenti.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

Even in the auditorium at Steeplechase Park, where the cognoscenti assemble to witness the discomfiture of the uninitiated, there is nothing but harmless laughter as the skirts fly up before the unsuspected blast.

From Roving East and Roving West by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

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

Upon asking how he had been taught the art of a cognoscente so suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy.—Id.

From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell