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elite

[ih-leet, ay-leet] / ɪˈlit, eɪˈlit /




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In 2012, researchers uncovered the first undisturbed elite Wari tomb, containing the remains of 58 high-status women, six human sacrifices, and approximately 1,300 artifacts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Arsenal's summer was dominated by talk of their search for an elite forward, with the left wing one of the positions identified.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Many of the nation’s most elite institutions have recently turned away from test-blind or test-optional admission policies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

We have to make sure that when they go out on the field, they understand that there's some elite level players out there.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Although exact ages are not known, it is likely that some Waffen-SS recruits were former Hitler Youth, now old enough to join the elite SS formation.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

Europeans, and especially Western Europe's leadership elites, have succumbed to a decades-long "crisis of disbelief", argues Andrew Michta, a Polish-born American academic who is professor of strategic studies at the Hamilton School, University of Florida.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

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

Having established some common ground, Adams then veered off in a direction that had always gotten him into political trouble—namely, the inevitable role that elites play in making history happen.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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