as in elites
individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class
membership in the society is reserved for the literary world's aristocracy
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Noun
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Epstein, a career criminal and con artist, saw weakness in the rich and powerful and exploited it, and his emails are an incredible map of elites, and of their wealth and power.—
Ben Smith,
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Its elites are more dependent on the regime, not less.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One of Ong’s observations in Orality and Literacy is about heavy and light characters in oral societies.—
Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
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The concept shared by these two works is the idea that colonial and authoritarian societies are held together through the presence of a scapegoat (The Barbarians) whose existence justifies the need for all the tools a society uses to build and maintain control.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Canadians are the best in best-on-best.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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The two most notable team stats were points in the paint, where the Aztecs scored 52 points; and turnovers, where the visitors committed six while forcing 22, both season bests.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Venhuizen ultimately declared the sales tax reduction bill defeated due to its lack of an 18-vote majority of members-elect.—
Makenzie Huber,
States Newsroom,
18 Feb. 2026
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Mike elects to go out on his own, and thus Money dispatches the mangy-looking kill machine Orman (Barry Keoghan; bleach-blond hair plus exposed roots = sociopath) to intercept Mike’s next job and take him down.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2026
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Residuals and royalties exist for a reason.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
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In 2018 Glencore stopped paying the royalties—estimated to be around $77,000 a day, or $28 million annually—that Gertler was entitled to under Congolese law.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Aristocracies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aristocracies. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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