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intelligentsia

[in-tel-i-jent-see-uh, -gent-] / ɪnˌtɛl ɪˈdʒɛnt si ə, -ˈgɛnt- /




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As the big day approached, Aschenbrenner’s friends, former colleagues and fellow members of the Silicon Valley intelligentsia filtered into the wedding hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

His bold and at times brash style, rejecting the more staid political rhetoric of Nandi-Ndaitwah, has seen him win support among business people and the growing urban intelligentsia.

From BBC Nov. 25, 2024

Once identified among the intelligentsia as a “reformicon” hoping to shift a neoconservative GOP toward a pro-working-class direction, Salam had long curried liberal affection as “literary Brooklyn’s favorite conservative.”

From Slate Sep. 25, 2024

Artists who operate this way are looked down upon by the art world’s intelligentsia.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2023

Meanwhile, at school I was quietly collecting bits of data, trying to sort out my place inside the teenage intelligentsia.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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