hierarchically

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hierarchically
Adverb
  • The Ohio Valley is expected to start the holiday weekend off with chilly temperatures, before gradually getting warmer toward Thanksgiving.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Allow dogs to explore decorations gradually.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Plutonium is also the principal fuel in a fast neutron reactor, and in any reactor, it is progressively bred from non-fissile U-238 that comprises over 99 percent of natural uranium.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Cheung said Nicholson’s mental health struggles began in 2012, progressively worsening over the years and culminating into multiple hospital stays, City News Service reported.
    Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The success of the The Black Phone 2 bodes well not just for horror, but for original ideas in a production landscape increasingly dominated by reboots, remakes, and adaptations of existing IP — any IP, an even inert children's toy.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In 2006–07 fundraising and deployment cycles, firms rushed to put money to work and paid increasingly high prices, stretching valuations.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • What was once beyond the pale has little by little become accepted.
    Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But little by little, a new wave of neuroscientists started questioning this status quo, Andrillon said.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Hierarchically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchically. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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