cognoscenti

Example Sentences

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Once just 'the lads with the brushes', their physicality has evolved the position to the extent that the curling cognoscenti consider it to now be "a sweeping game" rather than a throwing one.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 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

Mair, Foster Bodorff and three other local tree cognoscenti formed a semicircle around Van Pelt’s Paul Bunyanesque figure, with a bushy beard once bright red turned white.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

"Oh, I assure you, our cognoscenti have very good table manners indeed!"

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn