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Which poet helped reintroduce the word elite into English through his epic poem Don Juan?

elite

[ih-leet, ay-leet] / ɪˈlit, eɪˈlit /




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Is it a little weird that metal is now welcome as an elite Las Vegas entertainment commodity?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Majumdar said the procedure is so common in teens that many baseball families regard it as “a rite of passage”: “They can be elite now that they’ve had their Tommy John surgery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Harry Kane: Just an elite finisher and his goal put England firmly in control.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The Kremlin critic said he remained in contact with some members of Russia's ruling elite.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

What I did know was that not getting a spot on the national team had made me more determined to excel in elite gymnastics.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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

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

Dictators also use outside pressure to rally their populations, especially among elites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

A similar phenomenon had followed slavery and Reconstruction, as white elites struggled to define a new racial order with the understanding that whatever the new order would be, it could not include slavery.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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