echelon

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They improved to 5-12 against such teams after losing 12 of their last 13 games against the league’s upper echelon.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Newsom is eventually taken under Getty’s wing, where he’s introduced into a new echelon of society and politics.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

"It demands a second and even third echelon; personnel, platforms and logistics chains that can absorb losses and continue the fight. Yet this depth is notably absent from current British force design."

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Raising his house’s reputation as a formidable gladiator stable is the only path he can see to being accepted into society’s highest echelon.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

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