as in hierarchy
a scheme of rank or order
their team placed third on the tournament ladder
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Recent Examples of ladder
Fleischer recommends waiting until a snowstorm has ended before raking the roof and to never use a ladder in the snow.
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Christina Cush, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2026
Salsten views the women’s hockey ladder as potentially easier to climb than the men’s.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Images and photos shared online, verified by the owners, show a Denver Fire Department truck with its ladder extended to the red-brick building’s second story, and white-gray smoke billowing from the roof.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
Multiple engine and ladder companies worked in brutal temperatures to battle the fire.
—Lillian Bonsignore, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Christina Cush, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2026
Salsten views the women’s hockey ladder as potentially easier to climb than the men’s.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Images and photos shared online, verified by the owners, show a Denver Fire Department truck with its ladder extended to the red-brick building’s second story, and white-gray smoke billowing from the roof.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
Multiple engine and ladder companies worked in brutal temperatures to battle the fire.
—Lillian Bonsignore, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladder
Noun
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Japanese macaques adhere to strict hierarchies, and displays of dominance are to be expected.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
23 Feb. 2026
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The making of reading as luxury and the enclosure of public arts education is how new class hierarchies may be defined.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Money is also a metric that is used as a measure of success and the ranking of a university – meaning, getting more money can lead to a higher ranking.—
Brian Herman,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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The Horned Frogs have a higher NET ranking, but the Hawkeyes have six Quad 1 wins compared to four for TCU.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There’s one more factor that needs to be taken into account on the largest of cosmic scales, including for the cosmic measurements of the event horizon of the black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87, and that is the expansion of the Universe.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
25 Feb. 2026
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These are quibbles with a place whose essential proposition, privacy at a scale that no longer exists elsewhere in the Caribbean, remains effective.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Ladder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladder. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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