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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

When SpaceX went public, it did so at a more than $1.7 trillion valuation, putting it firmly in the upper echelon of companies by market capitalization.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 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

Still, even that kind of perceptiveness and proximity to the top echelon are no shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Even Lauren isn’t in that high of an echelon.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

The first men's wildcard to reach the last four at Wimbledon for 25 years, he will look to push on in 2027 after establishing himself in the upper echelons of the game.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Since graduating from Columbia University in 2021 as the class valedictorian at age 19, Leopold Aschenbrenner has worked his way into the upper echelons of technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

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

From Salon Aug. 8, 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

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 principal line of operations is that followed by the bulk of the army, and upon which depots of provisions, munitions, and other supplies are echeloned, and over which, if compelled, it would retreat.

From The Art of War by George Henry Mendell

The local reserves of flank sections should usually be echeloned in rear of the flank, which can thus be protected at need by determined counter-attacks on the flank of the enveloping force.

From Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

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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