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executive class

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Origin of executive class

First recorded in 1960–65

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That’s what makes the Rockies the Holy Grail for the math wonks and Ivy League whiz kids who make up baseball’s executive class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Yet as voters statewide prepare to vote in Saturday’s Democratic primary, there is also a palpable undercurrent of anxiety among the Upstate’s executive class — and beyond.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2020

“How much is enough for the executive class, how much is enough for the shareholders?”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2019

At some inevitable point in the unpredictable future, it will come to seem a less stupendous idea among the executive class to depend so heavily on the back catalog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2018

The well-to-do executive class forming the last group had the greatest cause to feel alarmed at the consequences which might follow upon the war.

From Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker by Catherine, Princess Radziwill

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