intelligentsia
Example Sentences
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“A nearly eight-hour drama about the Russian intelligentsia that received mixed reviews when it premiered in London in 2002, ‘The Coast of Utopia’ isn’t for the theatrical faint of heart,” cautioned Times critic McNulty.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025
"I think the people who live here are a somewhat different community because it’s the intelligentsia," she says, "educated people who can’t live without the arts."
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024
Well educated and intelligent, Navalny was nevertheless not part of the intelligentsia, a fact which only helped broaden his appeal.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2024
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
