echelon

Example Sentences

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"In fact," she said, "people with learning disabilities have risen to the upper echelon of every public office in the United States, including former presidents."

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Newsom is eventually taken under Getty’s wing, where he’s introduced into a new echelon of society and politics.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the most ruthless member of the top echelon, went into hiding, his reputation for cowardice intact.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

Raising his house’s reputation as a formidable gladiator stable is the only path he can see to being accepted into society’s highest echelon.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

Even now, if Lee attacked en echelon, some of the brigades could not attack before dark, unless everything went very smoothly, and it would not go smoothly, not today.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara