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echelon

[esh-uh-lon] / ˈɛʃ əˌlɒn /


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The Emmy Award-winner also told the podcast a "next echelon" Oscar win still had "allure to me".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

While James’s numbers and playoff heroics say that he is still firmly among the upper echelon of NBA stars, his new deal is paying him like a somewhat useful backup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

UC leaders have shown a distinct willingness to take on the issue amid changes at the highest echelon of university decision-makers since 2020.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

He read broadly in philosophy, science, art, and religion and was known throughout Chicago’s upper echelon for his ability to converse on almost any subject and to do so with great wit.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Deena wants to watch Maddie soar, to see her climb the echelons into food media superstardom.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

For months, the holdings of his hedge fund Situational Awareness shot up in value, as did Aschenbrenner’s standing in the upper echelons of San Francisco’s elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Now with “Acomodo” — which debuted at the top of both Spotify Top Albums USA and Top Global Charts across all genres — Tito Double P affirmed his rightful place in música mexicana upper echelons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

McGovern was also described as a "senior front line operative" and a "confidante" of those in the upper echelons of the organisation.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

And that is perhaps the first and most fundamental thing that all novice oarsmen must learn about competitive rowing in the upper echelons of the sport: that pain is part and parcel of the deal.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"Together with our partners we’re working on an integrated & echeloned air defense system. We are preparing for winter on the battlefield," he wrote.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022

General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth."

From Time Magazine Archive

Details such as the echeloned curls, sinuous eyebrows, and almond-shaped eyes of the Girl with a Late Period Bob were painstakingly sculpted.

From Time Magazine Archive

The companies are then marched echeloned with an interval of 7 paces.

From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker

As the British Army was posted on the left, or exposed flank, I asked Joffre to place the French Cavalry Division, and two Reserve Divisions which were echeloned in reserve behind, directly under my orders.

From 1914 by John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres

The echeloning of the specialists in front is also the most favorable formation to progress by rushes in a terrain cut up by shell holes.

From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker


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