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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

The tax records show the couple has earned between $1.4 million and $3.5 million per year, putting them in the upper echelon of Americans when it comes to annual income.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 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

It’s the season for new stock-market price targets, and Morgan Stanley joined the upper echelon of Wall Street targets for the S&P 500 with its new outlook released Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

The political dialogue within the highest echelon of the revolutionary generation was a decade-long shouting match.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

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

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 shadow-path ran overland from Leipsic to the Japanese sea, so that the solar appurtenances would, it was hoped, be disclosed to observers echeloned along a line of 6,000 miles.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

They should be echeloned in depth as far as practicable.

From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker

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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