rarefied

Along the way, Watkins would once again remind of the rarefied air she already occupies in women’s basketball.

We’ve come a long way since then, but in most countries health authorities still occupy rarefied ground.

In the rarefied world of judges, that counts as a scolding.

It was that kind of rarefied air West navigated in thanks to a full life in basketball, the sport that tormented him so.

In the 18 years since her family left their home in New Jersey and stepped into some of the most rarefied circles in Washington, Martha-Ann Alito has never sought or cultivated a particularly public identity.