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Which poet helped reintroduce the word elite into English through his epic poem Don Juan?

elite

[ih-leet, ay-leet] / ɪˈlit, eɪˈlit /




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The compensation that elite financial firms are dangling for 10-week summer internships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Women account for about 10% of participants across motorsport, and just 4% of elite drivers, according to campaign group More Than Equal.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Josh Allen is elite, but the Bills aren’t impervious to problems — check out the Chargers game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

In diligent, exhausted Japan, self-described elite "competitive sleepers" vied to lie down, relax and nap the fastest and deepest in a contest organised by a mattress company.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

But at level ten, that began to change, because most gymnasts at that level were intending to pursue an elite career.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

Instead, they are the subject of an imagined plotline in which the military or some group of elites has access to extraordinarily advanced technology that can quickly and painlessly cure the human body of anything.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Zoe proved today that she deserves to be up there racing with the elites," British rider Hayley Simmonds told BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

It will help us explain why in the Ramesside period, officials such as Paser chose to reuse, modify or build tombs adjacent to the monuments of the preceding 18th-dynasty elites.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

At the Munich conference, Clark and Capocefalo met John Brockman, a literary agent of scientific books, who introduced Epstein to academics and Silicon Valley elites, according to Epstein documents recently released by the Justice Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

A similar phenomenon had followed slavery and Reconstruction, as white elites struggled to define a new racial order with the understanding that whatever the new order would be, it could not include slavery.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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