echelon
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Whatever the final price, the Roadster should compete in the upper echelon of luxury and performance cars alongside Porsche, Lamborghini and Ferrari.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Emmy Award-winner also told the podcast a "next echelon" Oscar win still had "allure to me".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
UC leaders have shown a distinct willingness to take on the issue amid changes at the highest echelon of university decision-makers since 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even Lauren isn’t in that high of an echelon.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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But while Kushner may be relatively unknown compared with his politically active brother, he has rapidly and quietly risen to the upper echelons of business, with an estimated net worth of $16.7 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Since graduating from Columbia University in 2021 as the class valedictorian at age 19, Leopold Aschenbrenner has worked his way into the upper echelons of technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Deena wants to watch Maddie soar, to see her climb the echelons into food media superstardom.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
McGovern was also described as a "senior front line operative" and a "confidante" of those in the upper echelons of the organisation.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
And that is perhaps the first and most fundamental thing that all novice oarsmen must learn about competitive rowing in the upper echelons of the sport: that pain is part and parcel of the deal.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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"Together with our partners we’re working on an integrated & echeloned air defense system. We are preparing for winter on the battlefield," he wrote.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022
Details such as the echeloned curls, sinuous eyebrows, and almond-shaped eyes of the Girl with a Late Period Bob were painstakingly sculpted.
From Time Magazine Archive
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General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The companies are then marched echeloned with an interval of 7 paces.
From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker
G. M. Bullock, had reached the donga immediately in rear of Long's guns, the rest of that battalion being echeloned in the open, further back as a support.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
The echeloning of the specialists in front is also the most favorable formation to progress by rushes in a terrain cut up by shell holes.
From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker
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