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- noun Common misspelling of
cognoscenti .
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Examples
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If blogs didn't exist, Jayson Blair would still be fabricating stories on the front page of the New York Times (with Howell Raines as his editor), CNN's Eason Jordan would still be misinforming the "cognescenti" that US military were deliberately targeting journalists for assassination and, most recently, the world would probably be believing the "anonymous source" who told an oh-so-willing Newsweek that a US serviceman flushed a Koran down a toilet.
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I think the closest thing we have to a taboo these days is Political Correctness ... which is to say, science fiction about whorehouses or in which God is a villain is a lot easier to sell than a story where, say, the villain is a black lesbian, or where a right-wing politrician who is reviled by the liberal cognescenti eventually proves to be absolutely correct.
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Amaro, the herbal liqueur long used as a post-meal digestive aid in Europe, is currently all the rage among the cocktail cognescenti; if bartenders aren't creating new drinks in which to include them, they're sharing an after-work snort of Fernet Branca or Cynar with their fellow in-the-know imbibers.
Tony Sachs: What's News In Booze: 5 New Spirits To Tempt Your Taste Buds Tony Sachs 2011
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I was served this dish a second time many years later at a dinner given by Ariane and the late Michael Batterberry—authors and food world cognescenti—in their Manhattan apartment.
A Royal Ragout Gail Monaghan 2011
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Amaro, the herbal liqueur long used as a post-meal digestive aid in Europe, is currently all the rage among the cocktail cognescenti; if bartenders aren't creating new drinks in which to include them, they're sharing an after-work snort of Fernet Branca or Cynar with their fellow in-the-know imbibers.
Tony Sachs: What's News In Booze: 5 New Spirits To Tempt Your Taste Buds Tony Sachs 2011
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Svevo's reputation was made, at least among the cognescenti.
Humor in Hopelessness Joseph Epstein 2010
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Svevo's reputation was made, at least among the cognescenti.
Humor in Hopelessness Joseph Epstein 2010
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Svevo's reputation was made, at least among the cognescenti.
Humor in Hopelessness Joseph Epstein 2010
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Svevo's reputation was made, at least among the cognescenti.
Humor in Hopelessness Joseph Epstein 2010
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Svevo's reputation was made, at least among the cognescenti.
Humor in Hopelessness Joseph Epstein 2010
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