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
top flight
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She played in every Women’s Super League match for London City last season as they finished sixth in their debut campaign in the top flight.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
So maybe it is not surprising then that in the compilation of the 20 most expensive transfers completed that only six were not to clubs in the English top flight.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
BBC Sport has counted every permanent transfer and loan between Premier League clubs since the summer of 2022, restricting the analysis to the 15 sides who have been in the top flight throughout that period.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 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
And the writer has often seen him going up the top flight, and, instead of his step being faltering and feeble, it was uniformly a trot!
From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Garden Blaikie
Andoni Iraola was appointed this summer as Slot's successor and, after using Mac Allister as a substitute in the top-flight opener at Newcastle, has started him in the past two games.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
But the academy product only had 25 minutes of top-flight football before this season so expectations must be managed.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
If history is anything to go by, the Tigers may already have gone a long way towards securing their most important objective of the 2025-26 season - preserving their top-flight status.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
He made 53 appearances in all competitions last season, scoring 11 goals, as the Gunners won the top-flight title for the first time since 2004.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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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