echelon
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The Emmy Award-winner also told the podcast a "next echelon" Oscar win still had "allure to me".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Baker Mayfield wants a contract extension that puts him in the upper echelon of earners, leaving his team, the Buccaneers, with a difficult choice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
UC leaders have shown a distinct willingness to take on the issue amid changes at the highest echelon of university decision-makers since 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
The political dialogue within the highest echelon of the revolutionary generation was a decade-long shouting match.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Lagarde is seeking to leverage her experience at the highest echelons of global policymaking to fight back against what she has described as an erosion of truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Even within the highest echelons of wealth concentration, these two groups are on different trajectories.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
The new series is based on Disgrace, the second in the series of books about a group of privileged men in the top echelons of society who are involved in evil activities.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Now with “Acomodo” — which debuted at the top of both Spotify Top Albums USA and Top Global Charts across all genres — Tito Double P affirmed his rightful place in música mexicana upper echelons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
He prayed for the President, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and other men in the top echelons of the Corps.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
"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
The echeloned company formed front to the flank, and the supporting company followed suit.
From A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919 by Sir Thomas Owen Marden
Battalions were echeloned in a depth of two companies, each with six light machine guns, constituting the first wave.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
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 Oliver Schoonmaker
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