cognoscenti
Example Sentences
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The icehouse, used as a living space, became “a site of convivial socializing among musicians and cognoscenti.”
Mark Russell, a master of political satire who stood at a star-spangled piano and kept the cognoscenti in stitches for six decades with musical parodies and professorial tomfoolery that tweaked politicians and captured the silly side of Washington, died on Thursday at his home there.
From New York Times
He was equally admired by the cognoscenti and the public.
From New York Times
That answer will infuriate the online soccer cognoscenti because there are ways to find fault with Andonovski’s substitution rotation, to question his connection with his team.
From Washington Post
As my friend Todd Gitlin once wrote, news coverage that treats politics as an insiders' game invites the public to become "cognoscenti of their own bamboozlement," which is strange.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
