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echelon

noun as in class, level

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Mamdani said Wednesday that he admired Tisch for cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the police department, lowering crime and “standing up for New Yorkers in the face of authoritarianism.”

This season, the women attempt to launch themselves into a higher echelon in the entertainment industry.

“Flesh,” Szalay’s sixth novel, follows István, a socially isolated Hungarian teen who through circumstances beyond his control is thrust into London’s upper echelon.

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“The military isn’t waiting for the political echelon to announce that the war is over. It has no choice.”

See where you fit in — and how much it takes to reach the upper echelons.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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