elites
Example Sentences
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It was a story we Mexicans know too well — we’re talented, just not yet at the level of the elites of the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
The revelations from the files further fueled the widespread, bipartisan exasperation among voters with the wealthiest elites.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Along one wall, a 19th-century trompe l’oeil screen dramatizes the classical gentlemanly taste that dominated among Neo-Confucian elites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
It estimated that 66 percent of the around $5.5 billion generated by mining each year was controlled by political elites working in cahoots with organized crime through murky public-private "strategic alliances."
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
He said he had grown up in a large, comfortable apartment in Pyongyang and had followed the privileged educational trajectory of North Korea’s elites, studying in East Germany and the Soviet Union.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
