Somewhere along the way, Mr. Margules had not only discovered a new career path, but also a whole new stratum of society.

"You lose whole strata of the population."

He said the words the way a paleootologist looks at a fossil, the fossil that dates a whole stratum.

The killings were perceived as part of a large-scale purge of a whole social stratum, including anyone friendly to American forces in the region.

So there might be a whole strata of Chapalii life that we've missed?

"This whole stratum was under the ocean," she said.

I think he's reflecting a whole stratum of our society that feels the same way.

The Villeneuve's Revenge was his access code to whole strata of illegal operations.

They represented a whole stratum decidedly below that of the decent working man of the poorer sort.

It has not reduced carbon emissions at all, yet it has created a whole new stratum of bureaucracy, administration and expense for industry.