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Six example sentences with echelon, each labelled with its topic.
Only the top echelon of the firm sees the client list, and even directors two levels down never receive it.
Business
A junior clerk who leaked nothing still rose two echelons after the reshuffle, purely because her department gained a ministry.
Politics
Finishing under two hours twenty moves a marathoner into an echelon where sponsors and elite start corrals suddenly appear.
Fitness
Two straight playoff runs lifted the franchise into an echelon where free agents started calling before the season ended.
Basketball
Winning the competition moved the young cellist into an echelon of soloists that major orchestras book years ahead.
Music
Founders who have sold a company belong to an echelon investors treat differently, returning calls the same afternoon.
Startups
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