hierarchies

plural of hierarchy

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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. 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Kang, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025 The New Future of Work Successful leaders understand that the future cannot be built on outdated ideals of top-down authority, rigid hierarchies and old ideas.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At current scales, nobody can compete with DJI.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The episode allowed the Emmy-winning Max series to finally pay homage to the world’s biggest comedy fest, which for decades was a talent incubator and industry summer camp where deals were struck and comics like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer and Quinta Brunson were discovered.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 May 2025
  • There are at least some echoes of the ultra-hyper violent God of War, the famed video game series, and that is getting a live-action adaptation on Amazon Prime Video down the road.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025

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“Hierarchies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchies. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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