ladder

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Recent Examples of ladder The half-brothers climb the ladder. Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025 In Game 1 against the Knicks in Abu Dhabi, Edgecombe tried to poster New York center Mitchell Robinson, and climbed high up the ladder to do it. Tony Jones, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 Remove Cobwebs on the Ceiling If your friendly neighborhood spiders have been building webs in the corners of your house, grab the Swiffer to swat them away without needing to haul out the step ladder. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025 Empowered by his newfound zen, Peter and his friends reckon with their purpose at work, and the daily grind of climbing the corporate ladder. Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ladder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladder
Noun
  • For boys to feel freed from this hierarchy, change needs to happen at every level, from homes and classrooms to community centers and government buildings, and most especially within the technology industry.
    Ashleigh N. DeLuca, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Each piece was weathered and color-coded to signal hierarchy and purpose, grounding the film’s grand concept of a migrating Earth into reality.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Its current critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes is 57 percent, while the audience ranking is much better at 87 percent.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
  • It was named a five-star hotel in Forbes Travel Guide's annual Star Awards and is frequently named the best or one of the best Arizona hotels in the ranking.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And, while large-scale armies were attacking one another with a vast arsenal of technological advancements, De Stijl architects and theorists were observing great opportunities for a better world based on this massive scale and these new technologies.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Or does the sheer scale of the challenge demand the capacity, availability and rock-bottom prices that only established Chinese suppliers can provide?
    Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Ladder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladder. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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