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Recent Examples of cognoscente When Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in 1992, with right field shadowed by a brick warehouse evoking urban stadiums of a bygone era, architectural critics and the baseball cognoscente were nearly moved to poetry in declaring the stadium a home run. Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023 Covington's cognoscente, epicures, glitterati, and connoisseurs all met at Grand Tasting 2018, part of the week-long celebration A Taste of Covington sponsored by the Covington Business Association. Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 6 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognoscente
Noun
  • Most legal scholars interpret this to mean that the President’s duty is to spend the money Congress appropriates, and that the President does not have the power to withhold funds.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Harvard’s Erica Chenoweth, director of the Non-Violent Action Lab and one of the world’s leading scholars of protest movements, has shown that peaceful resistance is twice as likely to succeed as violent resistance.
    Nancy Gibbs, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a council of eight experts who will advise the company and provide insight into how AI affects users’ mental health, emotions and motivation.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This is done in an effort to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses and decimate civilian morale, experts have said.
    Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Here’s a suggested syllabus, from our connoisseur.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • As Contenders connoisseurs know, this is an exclusive Deadline event designed for voting guild members.
    The Deadline Team, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After giving a peek at her family, Eilish ran with a handheld camcorder linked to the big screen, showing her polo-wearing band and the soundboard masters stationed below the risers.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Completed in the mid-1950s by master builder Joe Pawling for wealthy Illinois philanthropists and socialites George and Marcia Barrett, Holden occupied the digs from 1966 to 1977.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once word got out about her treatments, her list of devotees started growing; like Hamilton, some of her more famous clients became friends.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But as Shudder‘s senior vice president of programming and acquisitions, the 37-year-old horror movie devotee still takes care to hunt from the heart.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An effective trustee is skilled in conflict resolution and adept at maintaining open communication while prioritizing the trust’s objectives.
    Royce Ramey, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Slot shares this staple of Tottenham counterpart Ange Postecoglou’s attacking principles, with Porro adept at tucking inside to disrupt the opposition shape.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Palamides, as a physical-comedy virtuoso, loves mess—there’s a splash zone near the front, with audience members wearing plastic ponchos.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • D’Angelo was raised in a deeply religious Pentecostal family and got his musical start in the church, becoming a virtuoso at several instruments.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The guru was in prison and refused to leave prison without the other 52 political prisoners being released.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Cognoscente.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognoscente. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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