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

elite

[ih-leet, ey-leet] / ɪˈlit, eɪˈlit /




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Unless you are one of the elite, effervescent few who have never experienced unrequited interest, dating requires a certain level of bravery.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Many of the changes are playing out at smaller colleges, but even high-profile elite schools are pondering new tuition models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The fact they still used their algorithm and went through all their normal steps says a lot about elite football in the modern day - and also the limitations of data alone.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The 49ers didn’t show any Australia hangover last week, and look like one of the league’s elite teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Then again, given that this was my first season as an elite junior gymnast, I’d medaled more than I thought I would.

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

Rowing chiefs contacted by the BBC before Thursday's decision declined to comment directly on Crisafulli's "elites" remarks.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

Reporter Sara Ashley O’Brien: When I joined the Journal, in the fall of 2022, my first story looked at a little-known drug called Ozempic being injected by coastal elites to slim down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The major argument running through the letters throughout 1813–1814 concerned their different definitions of social equality and the role of elites in leading and governing the American republic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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