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A laboured points victory over Regis Prograis in his last outing did little to convince purists he belongs at the sport's highest echelon.

From BBC ● Sep. 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

Still, even that kind of perceptiveness and proximity to the top echelon are no shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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

He does not realize the attack is en echelon for a while; he thinks perhaps it is a diversion, and he will be hit on another flank.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

But while Kushner may be relatively unknown compared with his politically active brother, he has rapidly and quietly risen to the upper echelons of business, with an estimated net worth of $16.7 billion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Since graduating from Columbia University in 2021 as the class valedictorian at age 19, he has worked his way into the upper echelons of technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

McGovern was also described as a "senior front line operative" and a "confidante" of those in the upper echelons of the organisation.

From BBC ● Jun. 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

Riders competing in ordinary weekday events needed to whittle themselves down another 5 pounds or so, while those in the lowest echelons of the sport couldn’t weigh much more than 100.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

"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

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

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

The force for the counterattack should be held echeloned in rear of the flank which offers it the greatest advantage for the proposed attack.

From Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States War Department

All the national troops and mercenaries that the judicial authorities could command were echeloned in the streets, opposing a sort of dam to the torrent of the raging crowd.

From Joan of Naples Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas père

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