elite

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Those visitors describe a North Korea unrecognizable from the past, especially its capital, Pyongyang, where Kim and the country’s elite live.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

"After 16 years in elite sport, I know when performance suffers, you dive into the core of the issue, change the culture and you build a team that can deliver," she wrote.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

France, as always, brings elite quality across every line.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

For Deng, whose daughter isn't aiming for a "name school" such as the elite Tsinghua or Peking University in the capital, doing away with the gaokao would be ideal.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone