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echelon

[esh-uh-lon] / ˈɛʃ əˌlɒn /


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Whatever the final price, the Roadster should compete in the upper echelon of luxury and performance cars alongside Porsche, Lamborghini and Ferrari.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

The tax records show the couple has earned between $1.4 million and $3.5 million per year, putting them in the upper echelon of Americans when it comes to annual income.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Even Lauren isn’t in that high of an echelon.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

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

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

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

"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

Not only were the flights in echelon, but the planes of each unit were also echeloned, each plane being slightly above the one directly ahead.

From Aces Up by Covington Clarke

His advanced troops were carefully echeloned in fortified farms, each strongly concreted and armed with several machine guns.

From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

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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