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elite

[ih-leet, ay-leet] / ɪˈlit, eɪˈlit /




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Arsenal's summer was dominated by talk of their search for an elite forward, with the left wing one of the positions identified.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

In 2012, researchers uncovered the first undisturbed elite Wari tomb, containing the remains of 58 high-status women, six human sacrifices, and approximately 1,300 artifacts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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

Several bodyguards surrounded Kapustin as he laid out his bargain: The RVC was offering membership in an elite fighting force, he told Stupnikov, but it was a one-way ticket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mangefur, Scumnose and Frogblood considered rats to be the elite of Cluny’s horde.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

By comparison, meeting with elected elites, whose fleeting power depends on the whims of the populace, reminds him all too much of his own limitations.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Europeans, and especially Western Europe's leadership elites, have succumbed to a decades-long "crisis of disbelief", argues Andrew Michta, a Polish-born American academic who is professor of strategic studies at the Hamilton School, University of Florida.

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

Dictators also use outside pressure to rally their populations, especially among elites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

As he measured a line of society elites, he saw Vernet slipping out of the room.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day


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