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
The result is a club conceived without the hierarchies that characterize some of its London counterparts—members shaped not by title or industry, but by curiosity and shared sensibility.
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Rachel Ingram,
Robb Report,
21 June 2026
To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies, a world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through lineage and the many were ruled by the few.
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Hilary Gowins,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies.
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Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
6 June 2026
Rachel Ingram,
Robb Report,
21 June 2026
To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies, a world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through lineage and the many were ruled by the few.
—
Hilary Gowins,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies.
—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hierarchies
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Traditional ladders to success are losing their luster.
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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.
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Texas dominated many national rankings in the report as well, with the ZIP code encompassing the Dallas suburb of Crandall ranking second on the list and a more urban Dallas ZIP code ranking 10th.
Noun
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Now, thanks entirely to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the scales are tipping back towards the geriatrics.
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Also as the name indicates, the Diamondback has a dark diamond pattern on the scales.
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Swanson also homered on Tuesday night and has three homers and 15 RBIs in the first three games of the series.
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The three-game series had a season-high attendance of 105,214, besting the three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers in May that drew 82,799.
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“Hierarchies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchies. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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