inner circle
Example Sentences
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The CIA turned back to former Chevron personnel who understood the insular working of Maduro’s inner circle and its convoluted oil sector.
Plus there’s a lot of money to be made, particularly if he and his inner circle have placed their bets on the prediction markets or oil futures.
From Salon
Come March and April, this person enters our inner circle — an intimate partner who digs into our financial life.
From MarketWatch
He returned to Silicon Valley and eventually joined the so-called A-team at Uber, the inner circle that led the company to become one of the fastest-growing and most richly funded startups at the time.
Judging the resilience of Iran’s rulers is tricky given the opaque nature of the regime’s inner circles and the lack of a sustained foreign military presence on the ground.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.