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echelon

[esh-uh-lon] / ˈɛʃ əˌlɒn /


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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

When SpaceX went public, it did so at a more than $1.7 trillion valuation, putting it firmly in the upper echelon of companies by market capitalization.

From MarketWatch ● 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

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

Even within the highest echelons of wealth concentration, these two groups are on different trajectories.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

He is also the face of a growing media empire, which is what a comedian must become to hold sway in the upper echelons of new media fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

For months, the holdings of his hedge fund Situational Awareness shot up in value, as did Aschenbrenner’s standing in the upper echelons of San Francisco’s elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

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 shadow-path ran overland from Leipsic to the Japanese sea, so that the solar appurtenances would, it was hoped, be disclosed to observers echeloned along a line of 6,000 miles.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

Reinforcements as they arrived at Durban had been pushed rapidly up by rail north of Maritzburg, and the British troops were now echeloned along the railway up to Estcourt.

From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

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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