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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

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 targets for the S&P 500 with its new outlook released Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

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

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

He is also the face of a growing media empire, which is what a comedian must become to hold sway in the upper echelons of new media fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

The new series is based on Disgrace, the second in the series of books about a group of privileged men in the top echelons of society who are involved in evil activities.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 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

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 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

North of the grounds our line was echeloned forward and then ran due north to the corner of Hebuterne.

From The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 by S. J. Wilson

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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