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Example sentences for: mavens

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But to my mind, there are no aficionados more annoying than music mavens who prattle on about bootlegs.
The only women included are cosmetics mavens Estée Lauder and Madam C.J.
Just ask any literature professor how quickly English, French, and German departments flushed out their theory mavens once deconstruction became a dirty word.
That story also runs on the Los Angeles Times front--where the lead is a California election story--but below the paper's survey of Monica Lewinsky's possible career moves (samples from various PR mavens: Go on Oprah, go on Barbara Walters, don't go on Howard Stern).
Smith is fighting the end-of-the-world mavens on their own turf, appropriating their rhetoric and their symbols for his own, decidedly less Moral Majoritarian ends.