echelon
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Khamenei was not the only top official killed, with a whole echelon of senior figures wiped out including Revolutionary Guards chief Mohammad Pakpour, Khamenei's military advisor Ali Shamkhani and defence minister Aziz Nasirzadeh.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It’s the season for new stock-market price targets, and Morgan Stanley joined the upper echelon of Wall Street forecasts for the S&P 500 with its new outlook released Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Despite the fantasy elements of beautiful and talented people dressed in clothing designed by the upper echelon of the fashion industry, “Devil” has a sequel because what Sachs was experiencing felt real.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
That sparked more demand for general servers, which use conventional memory, and elevated the earnings of Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron into a new echelon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Even now, if Lee attacked en echelon, some of the brigades could not attack before dark, unless everything went very smoothly, and it would not go smoothly, not today.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
Deena wants to watch Maddie soar, to see her climb the echelons into food media superstardom.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
McMaster and several other creative colonels, who, at least for a little while, turned around both the Iraq War and the upper echelons of the U.S.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
The fate of this strait will be decided at the most senior echelons of the state.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
The teens are part of Make Great Plays, a grassroots organization that gives elementary school students a chance to dream, excel and believe they belong in educational echelons that once felt out of reach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Here I think I should remind you that my family is long-established in rather the upper echelons of the British aristocracy.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
"Together with our partners we’re working on an integrated & echeloned air defense system. We are preparing for winter on the battlefield," he wrote.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022
Details such as the echeloned curls, sinuous eyebrows, and almond-shaped eyes of the Girl with a Late Period Bob were painstakingly sculpted.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth."
From Time Magazine Archive
Scammon's officers in the reserve saw them as soon as Rodman's brigades echeloned, as these were toward the front and right.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
The 1st Corps was echeloned on the right and in rear of the 2nd.
From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres
The echeloning of the specialists in front is also the most favorable formation to progress by rushes in a terrain cut up by shell holes.
From Military Instructors Manual by Schoonmaker, Oliver
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