cognoscenti

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

As with previous events at LA-LA Land, the opening attracted rockers, drag queens and club world cognoscenti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

Some fashion cognoscenti questioned the blue lenses, saying the choice was garish and tacky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

You know, just a little something for the cognoscenti to have as a little specialness.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 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

On account of this, there has arisen, among, the cognoscente of codices, an interminable controversy attended by a startling divergence of opinion with respect to the length of the existence of this manuscript.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross