hierarchies

plural of hierarchy

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Recent Examples of hierarchies Companies are flattening hierarchies, as AI can automate coordination, reporting, and information relay—tasks consuming much of a manager's week. Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 But this divine similarity evidently did nothing to preclude slavery, patriarchy, and the many other social hierarchies depicted elsewhere in the Bible. Teresa M. Bejan, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 As muscles disappear and social hierarchies collapse, Jim embarks on a wild, campy quest to find a cure before his life falls apart completely. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026 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. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hierarchies
Noun
  • The trailer had piles of debris stacked all around it, including three ladders, four bike frames, eight tires, plywood, 5 gallons of motor oil and five black 55-gallon drums.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • Attendants, some on the ladders of fire trucks, misted water across the crowds to cool them in the heat.
    Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The approval and absence of concessions have magnified speculation of Trump putting his thumb on the scales for Paramount CEO David Ellison’s plans to assemble a media conglomerate.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
  • As the market scales and visibility increases, legislative frameworks are likely to follow.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • They were reimposed on July 7, in tandem with the US launching strikes on Iran, in retaliation for a series of attacks on commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • That includes leads Evan Peters, who is filming Season 13 of American Horror Story for FX and Murphy, and Rebecca Hall, who is in talks for the female lead opposite Morgan Spector in Netflix’s Dan Brown series adaptation The Secret Of Secrets.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 July 2026

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“Hierarchies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchies. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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