Thesaurus results for HIERARCHIES

hierarchies

noun

plural of hierarchy

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 Nevertheless—as Rooney often captures well in her novels—the reason that sharing life with men can feel like slow violence is ultimately not the men themselves (not in many cases, at least) but, rather, the hierarchies that, flowing through us all, elevate them and suffocate us. —

Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 How the stock trades in its first weeks will ripple across private markets, impacting valuation benchmarks for Anthropic and OpenAI, rearranging Silicon Valley’s implicit venture-fund hierarchies, and determining how much mainstream capital other space-tech companies can attract in SpaceX’s wake. —

Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026 Gary Hamel, whose work on humanocracy is among the most rigorous on this subject, has spent decades demonstrating that most hierarchies reward positioning over contribution, politics over performance. —

Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 Scholars have highlighted the ways in which Jim Crow informed the Nuremberg Laws, yet German colonial rule in Africa produced anti-miscegenation regulations and racial hierarchies that predate the Nazi period. —

The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 What began as a search for community and understanding turned into an experience that felt akin to the cliques and social hierarchies of high school. —

Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 6 June 2026 Tillmans frequently displays his work tacked or taped directly to the gallery wall, interspersed with postcards, ink-jet prints, and magazine clippings, calling into question typical hierarchies of scale and subject matter and pointing out the photos’ materiality. —

News Desk, Artforum, 26 May 2026 Throughout the nine tracks, which range from haunting to playful and toy with auto-tune, Malone examines relationship hierarchies and expectations. —

Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026 New social hierarchies emerged. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026

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The Medline warehouse has faced serious citations regarding unsafe vehicle travel behavior; hazardous aisles, ladders, or stairways; and a lack of sufficient foot protection for employees exposed to foot injuries.

— Lyanne Wang, CBS News, 13 June 2026
The ladders across the Khumbu Icefall, which are carefully fixed by Sherpas to help climbers navigate the most treacherous section of the climb, had already been dismantled, according to one mountaineering company.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 5 June 2026