echelon

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PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp said the Tour will double signature events, creating an upper echelon with about 120 players and a cut.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

They improved to 5-12 against such teams after losing 12 of their last 13 games against the league’s upper echelon.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Newsom is eventually taken under Getty’s wing, where he’s introduced into a new echelon of society and politics.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

Raising his house’s reputation as a formidable gladiator stable is the only path he can see to being accepted into society’s highest echelon.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

Everything from the rear echelon to the forward echelon and back was sent through us.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac