elitist
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Michael Lucia initially bristled at the name, convinced it was out of touch and elitist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
OpenAI’s Altman said Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads illustrate how it is elitist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
"It would downgrade the Olympic Games to an elitist event with competition amongst only ten per cent of all 206 NOCs," the IOC executive board said.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
If not wanting my robot assistant/future overlord to have an image tool makes me an A.I. elitist, as Altman implies, then I will proudly fit myself for a monocle.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026
Barack and I knew we wanted to do a better job of democratizing the White House, making it feel less elitist and more open.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Look over here, you snobby basketball and soccer elitists!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Others labeled the data center’s opponents, including groups like CFFC, as anti-development elitists who intimidated the project’s supporters into silence.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 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
Finally, sometime after I’d moved away to college, the beach elitists surreptitiously had another chain-link fence installed across the tunnel entrance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
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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President Obama's Commencement Address (2016)
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"Thomas Jefferson: The Best of Enemies" by Ron Chernow
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