aficionado
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"I'm not really a musical expert or aficionado," he says.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
To mark the occasion, Hun Sen, an aficionado of luxury watches, gave each leader a $20,000 limited-edition timepiece—donated by Chen Zhi, whose staggering wealth helped gain him entry into Cambodia’s political elite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
If he’s an aficionado of fiction, there’s quite a few in the latest Booker Prize shortlist.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026
I’m more aficionado than maniac, but I find them endlessly listenable, rewatchable — they just look great, for one thing — and interesting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
Mary asked Helen, an aficionado of the outdoors, to take Janice trekking with a full backpack, first on Buckroe Beach, then up into Virginia’s Shenandoah mountains.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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He went to bat for gummy aficionados during oral argument.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Thrust into a position that was not his, Bradley had to endure the jeers of frenzied aficionados at the start of his professional career, along with spitting and tossed coins.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
To some aficionados, the bikes are an expression of the same rebelliousness that fueled the rise of companies such as Harley-Davidson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Now they’re rising again, a battalion of restored and replica specimens, beloved by road-trippers, kitsch aficionados, artists, preservationists and savvy entrepreneurs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
It is these aficionados, these rêveurs, who see the details in the bigger picture of the circus.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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