elite
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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
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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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