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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 could have been a complicated tale, spiked with insight about the dilemmas of power or the challenges of legitimacy now facing America’s liberal elite.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 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

The clip, as mocked by a satirist on prime-time TV, went viral on social media among Egypt's anglophone liberal elite.

From Reuters • Jul. 3, 2013

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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