as in intelligentsia
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Noun
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Dipping Toes in Populist Waters Mr. Hawley belongs to a conservative intelligentsia that includes Oren Cass, the influential founder and chief economist of the think tank American Compass.—
Robert Draper,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025 -
The Russian intelligentsia had once admired Ukraine, seeing in it the birthplace of the Muscovite dynasty and Orthodoxy.—
James Verini,
The New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, the avant-garde New York band that helped redefine Seventies rock & roll, especially that coming out of the city.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2025
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Landry became a kind of cultural conduit—a link between the avant-garde scene of the North and the Cajun and Creole cultures of the South.—
Reya Hart,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2025
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“Culturati.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culturati. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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