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Recent Examples of cicerone
Jen Blair, 45, is one of 28 master cicerones, or beer experts, in the world, only five of whom are women.
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Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Here our cicerone stopped and turned back to address us.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Producing full-bodied, low-carb beers can be difficult, but the challenge has inspired innovation, Katherine Benecke, a cicerone at Treadwell Park in New York City, told Fox News Digital.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The advanced cicerone — a cicerone is like a sommelier, but for beer rather than wine — also writes a Substack about drinking and music, Beer & Soul.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 13 June 2025
In both her garden and her paintings, color is the cicerone that guides Lauter’s audience through emotional journeys fraught with personal iconography and symbolic meditations on life and mortality.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2024
Founder and brew master David Reese is the only advanced cicerone in the state and one of only 139 in the world, earning this certification for his advanced knowledge of beer and flavors.
—Kelsey Ogletree, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2024
Dealing with the passion of the artist through the complexity of the man, Cooper inhabits Bernstein and Maestro’s compositions with Nézet-Séguin as his cicerone.
Like Maestro Cooper, Nézet-Séguin lost himself within the music of the film and the power of the art form while channeling Bernstein.
—A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
Monosoff is also a certified cicerone — which means she’s trained to taste, evaluate and serve beer — and a master sommelier, the highest distinction for a wine expert.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Here our cicerone stopped and turned back to address us.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Producing full-bodied, low-carb beers can be difficult, but the challenge has inspired innovation, Katherine Benecke, a cicerone at Treadwell Park in New York City, told Fox News Digital.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The advanced cicerone — a cicerone is like a sommelier, but for beer rather than wine — also writes a Substack about drinking and music, Beer & Soul.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 13 June 2025
In both her garden and her paintings, color is the cicerone that guides Lauter’s audience through emotional journeys fraught with personal iconography and symbolic meditations on life and mortality.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2024
Founder and brew master David Reese is the only advanced cicerone in the state and one of only 139 in the world, earning this certification for his advanced knowledge of beer and flavors.
—Kelsey Ogletree, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2024
Dealing with the passion of the artist through the complexity of the man, Cooper inhabits Bernstein and Maestro’s compositions with Nézet-Séguin as his cicerone.
Like Maestro Cooper, Nézet-Séguin lost himself within the music of the film and the power of the art form while channeling Bernstein.
—A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
Monosoff is also a certified cicerone — which means she’s trained to taste, evaluate and serve beer — and a master sommelier, the highest distinction for a wine expert.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cicerone
Noun
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Check out our other guides to the best telescopes, binoculars, cameras, star projectors, drones, lego and much more.—
Paul Brett,
Space.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy medication guides, for example, note that a small number of participants experienced hair loss during clinical trials.—
Julia Sullivan,
Allure,
6 Mar. 2026
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Pickett, after all, spent last season under the tutelage of Pete Carroll, who is Canales’s mentor.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Mar. 2026
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In fact, his manuscript is also about his fantasies—in this case, fantasies about a young man who has a meaningful, intellectual, tender affair with his older mentor.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
9 Mar. 2026
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China’s biggest chain of eye hospitals is working with an adviser on the share sale, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private.—
Julia Fioretti,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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If financial advice or an advisor feels off, listen to your gut.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Progress with some labor groups The school board on Tuesday approved four labor contracts with some of the district’s smaller unions — as negotiations continue with the teachers union and service workers that together represent more than 60,000 employees.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Critics include the Youth Peace & Justice Foundation, a non-profit formerly known as the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, which was formed in 2022 following the mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers a Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Cicerone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cicerone. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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