elites
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A tired 74-year-old dictator would have to deal with the challenges of demobilization and delivering the rewards society and fellow elites believe they are entitled to for putting up with his pointless war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Instead, they are the subject of an imagined plotline in which the military or some group of elites has access to extraordinarily advanced technology that can quickly and painlessly cure the human body of anything.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Zoe proved today that she deserves to be up there racing with the elites," British rider Hayley Simmonds told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
It will help us explain why in the Ramesside period, officials such as Paser chose to reuse, modify or build tombs adjacent to the monuments of the preceding 18th-dynasty elites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
China consisted then of kingdoms with rich elites and poorer commoners, living in walled towns, and on the verge of political unification to become the world’s largest empire.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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