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adj. - Of high moral or intellectual value; Reserved for an elite group; Having low density.

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  • Some things he does at the plate are in rarified terrritory.
  • Cox will be floating in rarified air tonight as manager of the National League
  • Interstellar space could, in general, be defined as a rarified nothingness, a more perfect vacuum than anything achievable in a laboratory.
  • The Lithuanian auteur has long been known, if not exactly loved, for a kind of rarified ultra-minimalism - long takes in grainy B
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