lower orders
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The French aerospace company booked sharply lower orders in the first half of the year as the group didn’t log a single booking for its Rafale fighter jet, though its Falcon business aircraft remained popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2020
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2016
The lower orders of animals are in full possession of the earth and sea—fish, fowl, and sea-monsters.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood Mason
