Even if it's not ignoring them, they're not part of the inner circles. (fortune.com)
If he wasn't part of their inner circle, he shouldn't be doing things that only they were privileged to do. (redeeminggod.com)
She settled in New York in 1945 and became part of the inner circle of three of the era's major artists — Pollock, De Kooning and Mark Rothko. (latimes.com)