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  • noun An elite that has capacities that far surpass those of a regular elite.

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Examples

  • So how, despite this record, did the Big Ten sustain this notion that it was a superelite football conference?

    The Not-So-Big Ten 2007

  • Nowadays homework loads among the Ivy-bound superelite can be downright inhumane, but they are the exception.

    Now, for Tonight's Assignment ... 2004

  • Nowadays homework loads among the Ivy-bound superelite can be downright inhumane, but they are the exception.

    Now, for Tonight's Assignment ... 2004

  • Nowadays homework loads among the Ivy-bound superelite can be downright inhumane, but they are the exception.

    Now, for Tonight's Assignment ... 2004

  • Without any of the children of the wealthy and influential in the ranks of their students, public schools will then inevitably be allowed to deteriorate even further in a viscious cycle which will eventually lead to my seeing old age in a world of a realtively tiny well-educated superelite and vast masses of the semi-literate incapable of holding even basic jobs.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • Every year, thousands of New York City high-school students take a test hoping to get into the superelite Stuyvesant High School.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID BROOKS 2011

  • Making a religious connection for his audience, Rush compared Web access to the printing of the Bible, which allowed all Christians to read what only the "high-class, superelite" priests had seen.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Christians to read what only the "high-class, superelite" priests had seen.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • These new superelite tiers are in addition to programs the airlines offer for a tiny group of fliers, like Global Services at United Airlines and Concierge Key at American - the inspiration for the exclusive club to which the character played by George Clooney aspires in the new film, "Up in the Air."

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • With elite and superelite statuses and Nexus cards, business travellers tend to arrive just in time.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BERT ARCHER 2009

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