upper echelon

That’s not always the case anymore, although in terms of luxury items in general, they are still a much more affordable foray into the consumerist upper echelon.

Herbert enters his fifth season looking to continue his rise in the upper echelon of NFL quarterbacks.

A woman of color born to immigrant parents, Harris had to forge her own way into the upper echelon of San Francisco politics.

“Offensive linemen are among the most intelligent people on a football field, and he’s among the upper echelon,” JSerra coach Victor Santa Cruz said.

"Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking," the massively popular cookbook and subsequent Netflix show of the same name, may have introduced her to the masses, but Samin's reliable and outrageously flavorful recipes have kept her in the upper echelon of the culinary stratosphere.