Rarified in a sentence as an adjective

Social media is at a more rarified level of need.

They may acquire a much more rarified audience, while the rest of the world begins to look at them as a sort of easy way out....

If the bankers believe the company will come out into the public markets at 34 - 50B then that puts them in some really rarified territory.

There has been, in the rarified world of tech commenters, an increasing number of people claiming Stallman has been proven correct by recent events.

Sure we are in the rarified atmosphere of people who are self selecting for better than average critical thinking skills, here on Hacker News.

Once you get into more rarified sectors of the income distribution, they are more or less invisible on a personal basis.

Due to selection bias, we hear about these >$100k campaigns preferentially, but the company is breathing rarified air.

I hear it used this way in the rarified world of tech journalism and internet message boards far more often than traditional journalism or real life.

Even in the rarified atmosphere that is Silicon Valley, the Instagram acquisition was unusual.

Rarified definitions

adjective

having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

See also: rare rarefied

adjective

of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"