lower orders
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The French aerospace company booked sharply lower orders in the first half of the year as the group didn’t log a single booking for its Rafale fighter jet, though its Falcon business aircraft remained popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
The pigs of “Animal Farm” would certainly look askance at an agreement that was normally reserved for the elites being applied to the lower orders.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2015
Speakeasies were breaking down old social barriers by creating spaces where the upper crust rubbed shoulders with the lower orders.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
The punishment of excommunicating was far from being reserved for the lower orders.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott
