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as in hierarchy
a scheme of rank or order
in one ranking of the best places to live, San Francisco surpassed all the other cities in the U.S.
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2
as in rank
the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement
the President's ranking in the polls is at its highest level since he took office
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as in being
to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes
my favorite pitcher ranks first in the league for number of consecutive outs
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as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type
most critics would rank him among our best actors
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Recent Examples of ranking
Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
But 1-2 also works as a ranking, as in first and second.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
While Ford spokesman Mark Truby said there are no quotas on ranking employees, Farley does challenge managers to raise the bar on expectations.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, a list that’s been compiled by a British media company for nearly a quarter-century, has just announced its inaugural ranking of North America’s 50 Best Restaurants.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
But 1-2 also works as a ranking, as in first and second.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
In the following days, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and the parliament building in Kathmandu was set on fire, along with the homes of high-ranking politicians.
—Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
While Ford spokesman Mark Truby said there are no quotas on ranking employees, Farley does challenge managers to raise the bar on expectations.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranking
Noun
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For boys to feel freed from this hierarchy, change needs to happen at every level, from homes and classrooms to community centers and government buildings, and most especially within the technology industry.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
8 Oct. 2025
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Each piece was weathered and color-coded to signal hierarchy and purpose, grounding the film’s grand concept of a migrating Earth into reality.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Jets, Patriots, Vikings Pittsburgh’s pass defense has been a weakness this season (the Steelers rank 25th in success rate against the pass), but the team has a couple of get-right games looming.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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With agency closures stretching to a week, Democrats anticipate that the GOP rank-and-file will become more willing to negotiate an extension of expiring ACA subsidies that would help end the shutdown.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Originally designed for communications, these cables are now adapted to act as giant, passive sonar arrays capable of detecting, classifying, and tracking submarines, surface vessels, and other undersea activity across sea lanes.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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Once this pretraining stage is complete, the next step is to tailor V-JEPA to accomplish specific tasks such as classifying images or identifying actions depicted in videos.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For a select few who successfully climb the corporate ladder, becoming CEO also lands there.—
Carolyn Dewar,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
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This chic blanket ladder holds up to three of your coziest blankets, plus your purse and a few hats thanks to the top hooks.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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However, there are an equal amount of people who doubt his ability to stick around at the professional level.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Oct. 2025
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In 2019, the state of New Jersey ordered the owner of an industrial plant in West Deptford to address chemical contamination at the site, where high levels of PFNA had been found in the nearby soil and water.—
Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Both Robinson and McBride were net-rating kings for the Knicks last season — McBride during the regular season and Robinson in the playoffs — but neither jostled through many lineups.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The two big banks on the list, Citigroup and Bank of America , both have yields above 2% and about 60% of the analysts covering the stocks rating them a buy.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Opponents of gender ideology say grouping the two distinctly different terms together erodes decades of progress made by the gay rights movement.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2025
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To cope, Chinese companies have turned more to grouping large numbers of less efficient, often homegrown, chips together to achieve similar computing capabilities.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These numbers underscore both the scale of the problem and the critical importance of this collaboration.—
Summer Stephan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
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While many governments defended Israel's initial right to respond to the attack, the scale of civilian death and suffering wrought by its war have drawn increasing international condemnation and isolation for the Jewish state.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Ranking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranking. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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