lower orders
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Dassault Aviation AM 7.01%increase; green up pointing triangle shares climbed after the French aerospace group posted a strong set of sales and earnings for the first half of the year despite booking sharply lower orders.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 23, 2026
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 12, 2017
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon β Mar. 13, 2016
Speakeasies were breaking down old social barriers by creating spaces where the upper crust rubbed shoulders with the lower orders.
From The Guardian β May 3, 2013
These important advances indicate a life of much more varied activity than in the lower orders.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood
