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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
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With the rise of avant-garde filmmakers in the 1960s, Iran‘s New Wave emerged, marked by the works of pioneers like Ebrahim Golestan, Farrokh Ghaffari, Hajir Darioush, and Forough Farrokhzad.—
Ali Farahmand,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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However, Campbell still values shock here and there, channeling an unexpected detail at Pharrell’s first Louis Vuitton show: a purple-streaked wig blending her avant-garde past with the classic future.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
22 May 2025
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“Culturati.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culturati. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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