INTELLIGENTSIA in a Sentence

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She preferred discussions about sports and politics to the literary conversations of the intelligentsia.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTELLIGENTSIA
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intelligentsia
 n.  intelligent and educated elite, especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union
Classic Sentence:
1  Connie was well-to-do intelligentsia, but he was aristocracy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
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Example Sentence:
1  She preferred discussions about sports and politics to the literary conversations of the intelligentsia.