intelligentsia
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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
Which isn’t to say that rock’s intelligentsia ever viewed him kindly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"I met all the intelligentsia of Swansea really."
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 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
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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