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
Racial hierarchies may be scrambling, but the reality that the existing global order was birthed to entrench racist beliefs cannot be erased.
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Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
While Henry worries about the risks of invasion by Spain or of a religious civil war, Cromwell, whom nobles nickname Crumb for his low birth, envisions a world that’s less beholden to ancient hierarchies.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
The New Future of Work Successful leaders understand that the future cannot be built on outdated ideals of top-down authority, rigid hierarchies and old ideas.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Real love establishes new worlds and hierarchies or lack thereof.
—James Factora, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
Sylvia Wynter – Questions colonial and racial hierarchies that shape dominant visual paradigms.
—Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025
Her research examines intergroup dynamics in complex, multi-level hierarchies, and factors that make overt discrimination challenging to detect.
—Harvard Business Review, 14 Mar. 2025
Football and basketball continue to receive maximum dollars, but from there, hierarchies emerge.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
For one, human hierarchies are much more intricate due to numerous roles and social contexts.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2025
Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
While Henry worries about the risks of invasion by Spain or of a religious civil war, Cromwell, whom nobles nickname Crumb for his low birth, envisions a world that’s less beholden to ancient hierarchies.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
The New Future of Work Successful leaders understand that the future cannot be built on outdated ideals of top-down authority, rigid hierarchies and old ideas.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Real love establishes new worlds and hierarchies or lack thereof.
—James Factora, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
Sylvia Wynter – Questions colonial and racial hierarchies that shape dominant visual paradigms.
—Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025
Her research examines intergroup dynamics in complex, multi-level hierarchies, and factors that make overt discrimination challenging to detect.
—Harvard Business Review, 14 Mar. 2025
Football and basketball continue to receive maximum dollars, but from there, hierarchies emerge.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
For one, human hierarchies are much more intricate due to numerous roles and social contexts.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hierarchies
Noun
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Taube points to recession-resistant sectors like healthcare and the use of bond ladders as ways to build stability.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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The ladders were erected under the nets, waiting for the players and coaches to cut them down; UConn left them alone and the workers took the ladders away after everybody left the court.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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At current scales, nobody can compete with DJI.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Tipping the scales like that, the Area-51 laptops don’t feel like just a resurrection of Alienware’s flagship brand name but a throwback to older, basically immobile desktop replacement laptops.—
Antonio G. Di Benedetto,
The Verge,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In each of the past two NBA playoffs, at least two lower seeds have won a first-round series, including four in 2023.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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In the latest video for Vogue’s Now Serving series, where celebrities make their signature dishes on camera, the Smiths give us the rundown on how to make a crispy chicken sandwich and rosemary mint lemonade.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Hierarchies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchies. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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