elite
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Only the elite should be allowed in the courtroom.
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- noun A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status: "In addition to notions of social equality there was much emphasis on the role of elites and of heroes within them” (Times Literary Supplement).
- noun The best or most skilled members of a group: the football team's elite.
- noun A size of type on a typewriter, equal to 12 characters per linear inch.
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- We have created an elite within Vatican; only the elite are aware of the knowledge we have gained. — Project Pope
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Only the elite should be allowed in the courtroom.
— CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2003 -
SARAH PALIN (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I guess my being such an outsider from the Washington elite and the media elite is the questions that she was asking me were, I kept thinking, why aren't you asking me things that really, really matter right now?
— CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2008 -
On whether Thaksin wanted or knew he would get into a battle with the elite (or his battle with the elite was an unintended consequence), this seems a more difficult question.
— Bangkok Pundit - - — Best Detective Stories
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- French élite, from Old French eslite, from feminine past participle of eslire, to choose, from Latin ēligere; see elect.
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