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Noun
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Those unions’ rank and file, increasingly, see Democrats as cultural elitists who look down on them and want to replace their jobs.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025 -
The private remark reinforced a sense, even among conservatives, that the wealthy businessman was an out-of-touch elitist who was ready to write-off about half the country as indifferent to his economic agenda.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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Terroir doesn’t just belong to wine snobs, because apparently Ethiopia owns it.—
John Noakes,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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O’Hara relished playing deluded snobs like this wealthy Manhattanite with artistic ambitions from director Tim Burton’s horror comedy about two dead owners of a country house who want to drive out its new buyers.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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