elitist
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Historian Swapna Liddle acknowledged the club's elitist origins, but said she would have preferred efforts to reform the institution rather than shutting it down.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
But some project supporters call Keller and other critics elitist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
They’re insincere and elitist and out of touch and smug in many respects, from the perspective of a young man.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
OpenAI’s Altman said Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads illustrate how it is elitist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Fort Hare could be a rather elitist place and was not without the hazing common to many institutions of higher learning.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
While elitists criticize and theorize about the poor, Robert L. Woodson Sr. looked for successes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
The public has glommed on to the cosmic irony of Davis, a Black radical, being descended from a group of people whom elitists view as a top determinant of social legitimacy.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023
In a land of vinyl sickos, Spotify normies, and Winamp elitists, Wade Nixon, the man behind the incredibly popular YouTube channel “DankPods,” stands alone with a pair of MP3-playing Oakley sunglasses.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2022
Q: A few years ago, you received flak for a brief clip on CNN where you joked in a Southern accent: “ ‘You elitists with your geography and your maps — and your spelling!’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
It would become a corporate-run dystopia, an overpriced theme park for wealthy elitists.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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