as in ladders
a scheme of rank or order
honesty sits at the top of my hierarchy of values
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Recent Examples of hierarchies
People who are rude or unaware with receptionists can poison your culture, create unnecessary hierarchies, and drive your best people to leave.
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Jessica Neal, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
Historically, beauty standards have been used to reinforce social hierarchies and maintain power structures, marginalizing people who don’t fit the societal standards.
—Akilah Sailers, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
The Barca and Madrid hierarchies have battled together for common causes like the European Super League, which Perez has been pushing for decades, and which Laporta saw as a possible handy solution for Barca’s financial difficulties.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Traditional organizational structures — built around functional silos and rigid hierarchies — won’t support this new reality.
—Swami Chandrasekaran, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
The challenge for free societies is that the effectiveness of leadership and social hierarchies always affords the possibility for authoritarianism.
—Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
Just as Italian Neorealism and Brazilian Cinema Novo once did, through his cinema, Walter’s inner space opens its doors horizontally, without agendas or hierarchies, so that all human emotion can converse within this personal yet collective space.
—Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
There is so much to explore in that space between imagination and reality—interacting with a person and with their works, the various hierarchies and hopes.
—Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Yet, occult practices had hierarchies.
—Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Jessica Neal, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
Historically, beauty standards have been used to reinforce social hierarchies and maintain power structures, marginalizing people who don’t fit the societal standards.
—Akilah Sailers, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
The Barca and Madrid hierarchies have battled together for common causes like the European Super League, which Perez has been pushing for decades, and which Laporta saw as a possible handy solution for Barca’s financial difficulties.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Traditional organizational structures — built around functional silos and rigid hierarchies — won’t support this new reality.
—Swami Chandrasekaran, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
The challenge for free societies is that the effectiveness of leadership and social hierarchies always affords the possibility for authoritarianism.
—Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
Just as Italian Neorealism and Brazilian Cinema Novo once did, through his cinema, Walter’s inner space opens its doors horizontally, without agendas or hierarchies, so that all human emotion can converse within this personal yet collective space.
—Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
There is so much to explore in that space between imagination and reality—interacting with a person and with their works, the various hierarchies and hopes.
—Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Yet, occult practices had hierarchies.
—Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hierarchies
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Another approach on two ladders was also aborted, and a drone was sent up in their stead.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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The all-electric vehicles are equipped with shotguns, shields and ladders and additional battery capacity to better handle the demands of a police department, McMahill said.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2025
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In contexts not concerning the elite private colleges of New England and their decades-old conflicts and syllabi and on-campus squabbles, this mode of prestige media procedure matters absolutely and enormously, at scales difficult to tabulate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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But there are still other redistricting maps in the works in several other states that could tip the scales in Republicans' favor.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Vesia’s status loomed over the series and hung heavy in the Dodgers’ clubhouse.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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King was one of this year’s honorees, receiving the Crystal Award for Advocacy in Film alongside Akil and Judy Blume for their Netflix series, Forever.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Hierarchies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchies. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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