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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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Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a marquee showcase for foreign investment, was to gather the global financial elite in Riyadh beginning Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Another important discovery followed in 2022, when archaeologists identified nearby burials of elite craftspeople accompanied by gold, silver, and bronze tools.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Chun-Li, played by Liang, recruits the pair to compete with other elite fighters in the World Warrior tournament, organised by crime boss M. Bison.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

We’ll also get a better sense of what the future might hold for Ohtani as a two-way player, and for his potential to perform at an elite level on both sides of the ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

But these figures, members of the traditional evangelical elites, do not speak for the entire community of evangelical elites.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 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

It was founded in 1920 by elites including Talaat Harb as the first bank in the country wholly owned by Egyptians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Other donors to the Christian Union are members of local elites across the Bible Belt.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times


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