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Noun
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For now, these ideas mostly live in the political intelligentsia and online far-right hubs.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
25 Nov. 2025 -
Revolutionary groups, often recruited from universities and the intelligentsia, were soon carrying out terrorist attacks in the cities.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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Alan Vega continues Suicide’s interest in minimalist instrumentation and linear structures, but trades Rev’s avant-garde electronics for Hawk’s more digestible, Eddie Cochran-esque guitar.—
Alastair Shuttleworth,
Pitchfork,
22 Jan. 2026
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The city is internationally recognized as a crucible for the art form, from Louis Armstrong’s presence here in the 1920s to the influence of the South Side’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) on the international avant-garde.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Culturati.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culturati. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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