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liberal elite

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noun

  1. the group of people in a society who are considered as having a high level of education and liberal ideas

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This opinion is echoed by the moderate flank of the liberal elite.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

Much of Moscow’s liberal elite had joined Navalny’s campaign.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2018

Nate Clinton made huge gains in the enclaves of the liberal elite, places like Boston, Seattle, Washington, D.C., where there’s a large professional class of lawyers or scientists or professors.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2016

Or we might like to think of Scandinavians as some kind of super-healthy liberal elite, living in a kind of Nordic nirvana.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2016

She has an extraordinary eye for the telling nuance of social interaction within a particular kind of liberal elite.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013

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