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
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
Everything from the rear echelon to the forward echelon and back was sent through us.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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Even within the highest echelons of wealth concentration, these two groups are on different trajectories.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
The first men's wildcard to reach the last four at Wimbledon for 25 years, he will look to push on in 2027 after establishing himself in the upper echelons of the game.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
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 knew the mechanics of being a good commander: the tricks, procedures, requirements, and occasional gymnastics one had to employ to keep morale high and the higher echelons pleased.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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"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
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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
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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
North of the grounds our line was echeloned forward and then ran due north to the corner of Hebuterne.
From The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 by S. J. Wilson
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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