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- noun The quality of being
elite .
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So you’ve got elite bloggers, whose sense of eliteness is being reaffirmed by an elitest aggregator.
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The delicious irony in this question of Millennium's "eliteness" is that the best minds in John Jay, come fall 2011, will likely be those of students enrolled in Research, Journalism and Law.
Michele Somerville: How Separate Might Yet Be Made Equal at Millennium High School in Brooklyn Michele Somerville 2011
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The delicious irony in this question of Millennium's "eliteness" is that the best minds in John Jay, come fall 2011, will likely be those of students enrolled in Research, Journalism and Law.
Michele Somerville: How Separate Might Yet Be Made Equal at Millennium High School in Brooklyn Michele Somerville 2011
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His pastor, his flag pin, his "eliteness", his so called friends who hate America.
Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky 2008
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His pastor, his flag pin, his "eliteness", his so called friends who hate America
Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky 2008
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Their "eliteness" does not necessarily extend to financial success in the real world among guild members--but then, being a "preppy" was always more about the right clothes and the a good line in small talk than in worldly wealth.
Class Begins in... 2005
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The delicious irony in this question of Millennium's "eliteness" is that the best minds in
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michele Somerville 2011
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Standardized testing eliminates the eliteness of universities.
Two Thoughts on Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I may have less eliteness in the workplace but the marketplace is where I'm the entrepreneur.
The Value of a College Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Everyone got the message: The brainiac doesn't win, niceness counts, eliteness alienates.
Why elites do belong on the Supreme Court Christopher Edley Jr. 2010
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