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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The crowd, composed mostly of New York and L.A. rap cognoscenti who had invented or dominated the genre, jeered, nearly heckling Outkast offstage — but not before André reeled off a prophesy.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

When 23-year-old vocalist Samara Joy wowed the crowd at Seattle’s Jazz Alley last June, she was not widely known beyond the jazz cognoscenti.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023

But I am not a stranger to the cognoscenti.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn