cognoscenti

Example Sentences

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Despite the beacon, only Hanoi’s cà phê cognoscenti seek out this snug shop furnished with four short tables and a small counter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

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

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

If the cognoscenti complained that he had buried the chiaroscurists after da Carpi, he always had the explanation that others did not work in the Italian style, which he neglected to describe.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob