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They add that Ivy Leagues and other elite schools that went test-optional in the pandemic have reversed course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

McInnes said that his coaching staff are "elite in everything we do" in preparing the players for games like this.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The guest list included Amodei himself, plus the company’s top scientist and other key executives, as well as AI luminaries and members of the Silicon Valley elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

To outsiders, investing can seem like an elite country club with its own rules.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

To the black elite, though, this was the best method of earning freedom, a technique proven under slavery, and so most likely to show results under a system not so very different from slavery.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Perhaps not surprising, this recognition begins with business elites 3,000 miles away from Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Nadezhdin, who worked in the government in the 1990s and was also a lawmaker in parliament, said Russian elites are frustrated but too afraid to act.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

A trip to the continent is a well-worn path for U.S. elites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Its carefully planned streets and advanced brick drainage systems indicate that resources were directed toward shared infrastructure rather than monuments celebrating rulers or religious elites.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

Bureaucrats, party officials, army officers, and other well-placed government elites ended up stealing about thirty percent of the aid, according to estimates by outside scholars and international aid agencies.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden