intelligentsia
Example Sentences
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"I met all the intelligentsia of Swansea really."
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024
Once identified among the intelligentsia as a “reformicon” hoping to shift a neoconservative GOP toward a pro-working-class direction, Salam had long curried liberal affection as “literary Brooklyn’s favorite conservative.”
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024
Artists who operate this way are looked down upon by the art world’s intelligentsia.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023
On Friday, Christopher Mathias of HuffPost released an exposé of Richard Hanania, a rising star of the right's supposed intelligentsia.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2023
Meanwhile, at school I was quietly collecting bits of data, trying to sort out my place inside the teenage intelligentsia.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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