elitist

Example Sentences

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OpenAI’s Altman said Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads illustrate how it is elitist.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

“There’s a reputation that museums, and particularly art museums, have of being kind of stuffy or like elitist or something like that, which is not something that I personally agree with,” says Critchley.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

BBC sources denied a report in the Telegraph that the corporation's director of sport, Alex Kay-Jelski, viewed the event as "elitist", adding that the decision had been purely based on the return on investment.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2025

And they become increasingly sympathetic to southern planters who complain about Black labor, and they seem to adopt their elitist attitudes.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

“Now, the witch doesn’t take kindly to this perspective. Personally, I don’t blame her. It’s reductionist, it’s elitist, and it’s just plain icky. So the witch goes from zero to a hundred—and curses Benefo.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer