elite
Example Sentences
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No elite racer had ever made a comeback on a rebuilt knee—or in their 40s.
"What she is doing now would not be nearly as surprising in an elite athlete whose knee was already functioning like the ACL was torn at baseline."
From BBC
Despite the injury that would sideline even elite athletes, Vonn called this Olympic opportunity “icing on the cake” of her storied career.
From Los Angeles Times
By positioning GLP-1s as a tool for an elite athlete’s health—not a “cheat code” for the lazy—Ro is attempting to accelerate the consumerization of the category.
A later generation of sociologists might have diagnosed Göring’s martial flamboyance as a form of “homeovestism”—that is, exaggerated and often impractical gender-normative dress or behavior intended to signal elite social status.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.