elite
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“We overproduced elite candidates, but there weren’t that many elite jobs to begin with — and they’re starting to shrink.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Even if LIV continues, its era of poaching elite players with giant paydays is likely over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Playing him propels an actor into an exceptionally elite group of performers.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Meet the “Everywhere Millionaires” proving that elite degrees aren’t a prerequisite for building massive wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Yet it is clear that belief in witchcraft among the educated elite diminished rapidly in the early eighteenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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What I found is that this is not just a protest of one project in one area by one couple of American elites.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Dubbed a "one-woman WikiLeaks", Caruana Galizia had exposed corruption at the highest level in the country, shining a spotlight on murky links between Malta's business and political elites.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nadezhdin, who worked in the government in the 1990s and was also a lawmaker in parliament, said Russian elites are frustrated but too afraid to act.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
At the Munich conference, Clark and Capocefalo met John Brockman, a literary agent of scientific books, who introduced Epstein to academics and Silicon Valley elites, according to Epstein documents recently released by the Justice Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Although the empire left the original elites of conquered lands in place, it humiliated them.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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