rarefied

Example Sentences

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This week's reception promises to be just as grand, including a stop inside Zhongnanhai, the rarefied compound where China's top leadership lives and works.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Samsung 005930 14.62%increase; green up pointing triangle Electronics has joined the rarefied air of companies valued at over a trillion dollars as its stock continued to be boosted by the boom in artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Their stakes are real, but the dispute comes to the court in such rarefied doctrinal form that the underlying injury almost disappears.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

The privilege is pressure, pressure is a privilege and the possibility of making such rarefied history, with folks at FanGraphs giving the Dodgers 27% odds to win this World Series, is anything but automatic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Even Amaranta, lying in a wicker basket, observed with curiosity the absorbing work of her father and her brother in the small room where the air was rarefied by mercury vapors.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez