nonelite
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a word derived from
elite.
elitenounthe choicest or best of anything considered collectively, especially of a group or class of people.
Example Sentences
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McIlroy, eighth-ranked Max Homa and world No. 2 Scottie Scheffler, each speaking Wednesday in Orlando at the site of this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, pointed to the paths arranged for nonelite players.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
Not a whole lot of big movement this week as the elite and nonelite teams begin to distinguish themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
“The nonelite probably mixed with the local population,” says Guido Gnecchi-Ruscone, a population geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, “but it seems the elite stayed homogenous.”
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 1, 2022
A gang that includes a wounded veteran, an unemployed former coal miner, a hairdresser and other motley members of the noncoastal nonelite conspires to knock over a Nascar race sponsored by Coca-Cola.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2017
The philosophy they call “radical” uses elite surf-training techniques—video analysis, advanced board positioning—to teach nonelite surfers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2016