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echelons

noun

plural of echelon

as in levels

the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement jobs in the upper echelons of the company pay quite well indeed

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Recent Examples of echelons China’s leadership doubled down on an anti-corruption drive that analysts say has variously sought to purge the top echelons of the Communist Party over graft and consolidate Xi Jinping’s power. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026 The costs of preference falsification and performative loyalty will accumulate among the highest echelons of the regime’s operators. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026 Research from the Diamond diversity monitor has revealed the scale of the UK TV industry’s working class problem, and found that the problem infects both the upper and lower echelons of the sector. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2026 In London, Yeats tried to keep Crowley out of the upper echelons of Golden Dawn, but Mathers, who had served as a mentor to Crowley and who was based in Paris by then, was willing to initiate him into the inner order, the documentary said. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 The three-part documentary follows the brothers’ rise from their privileged youth in Miami to reaching the highest echelons of high-end real estate, first at Douglas Elliman and then at their own brokerage, called Official. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026 Even within the highest echelons of wealth concentration, these two groups are on different trajectories. — Markus Schneider, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026 The story picks up when 14-year-old Maeve and her older sister, Reg, start a secret phone romance with a boy from the local boat club who promises a way into the upper echelons of Cape Cod society. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 That period also provided the foundations for where City currently sits within the top echelons of world soccer – having won the UEFA Champions League back in 2023 and winning four consecutive Premier Leagues from 2021 to 2024. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Well, yes, this Court is an illegitimate Court on a number of levels.

— David Remnick, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026
That means cybersecurity requires further levels of verification to ensure agents are only acting as they are permissioned and empowered to do.

— Michael Miebach, Time, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of levels

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This season is really no different, with many teams filling the top ranks in the nation.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Amid a flurry of cuts the past couple of years, the number of women in the highest ranks at the major studios has dwindled, and grows fewer by the day.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of ranks

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Those are places where many voters look skeptically, even scornfully, upon big cities and the people who run them.

— Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
The volumes insist that Jewish communities be remembered not solely as sites of death but as places where people lived, argued, worked and celebrated.

— Jennifer Rich, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026

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