top flight
noun
the highest or most outstanding level, as in achievement or development.
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top-flightadjectiveof superior or excellent quality; outstanding
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Sunderland have also signed defenders Thomas Meunier and Dayann Methalie, and midfielder Jules Ahoka, this summer after finishing seventh in their first season back in the top flight.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Yet his initial tenure in the English top flight was fleeting.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
McDonald, the new Sullivan & Cromwell lead attorney, wasn’t an antitrust specialist, though his two partners on the matter were, and Live Nation already had a deep bench of top flight lawyers from other firms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
This season there are nine new managers in the top flight, making this season arguably the toughest set of predictions I've made.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
We were looking at him over the banisters until he started to come up, and according as he came up, we went on up the top flight.
From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
Floyd is the son of former Blackburn and QPR defender Christopher, who played 171 top-flight matches for those two sides, as well as a further 12 in the Championship with Aston Villa.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Prior to this campaign, 80 teams in the English top-flight have won their first four league games of the season.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Villa took five games to score their first top-flight goal last season before ending the campaign triumphant, winning the Europa League in Istanbul.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Jakirovic guided Hull to a play-off win against a Millwall side who finished three places and 10 points above them, before Oli McBurnie's last-gasp winner against Middlesbrough secured top-flight football.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Eric, by now a full-time employee at Andersen, thought he might like a computing school; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a top-flight one.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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