echelon
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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
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
It’s the season for new stock-market price targets, and Morgan Stanley joined the upper echelon of Wall Street forecasts for the S&P 500 with its new outlook released Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
The marketing campaign “is definitely at the top echelon of what we do,” said Morrison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Everything from the rear echelon to the forward echelon and back was sent through us.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
But while Kushner may be relatively unknown compared with his politically active brother, he has rapidly and quietly risen to the upper echelons of business, with an estimated net worth of $16.7 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Deena wants to watch Maddie soar, to see her climb the echelons into food media superstardom.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
They could not quite make the biggest leap of all, but they were firmly ensconced in the upper echelons.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Worldwide, the number of equine clones born a year pales in comparison to traditionally-bred horses, but those clones—and their offspring—are starting to emerge in the top echelons of different equestrian disciplines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Riders competing in ordinary weekday events needed to whittle themselves down another 5 pounds or so, while those in the lowest echelons of the sport couldn’t weigh much more than 100.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
"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
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
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
The system of echeloned posts had not yet been developed.
From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
Scammon's officers in the reserve saw them as soon as Rodman's brigades echeloned, as these were toward the front and right.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob Dolson Cox
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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