Thesaurus results for LADDER

ladder

noun

ˈla-dər

Definition of ladder

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 The bit caught a pipe strap and wrenched him off a ladder, tearing off his thumb and mangling his hand. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Down the street, metal striking concrete rattles the air as a repairman unloads a ladder. — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Oct. 2026 The viral sequence saw Borden and Sting near the top of the ladder with Borden the one diving off the ladder, instead of his dad, onto the Don Callis family. — James Varsallone, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 Premium add-ons include a 440 W solar charging system, Starlink satellite internet, and an external ladder. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ladder

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The Argentina defender called out United's hierarchy over its offseason recruitment, with director of football Jason Wilcox the apparent target of his criticism.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
How far might a nation go that had no kings to depose, no entrenched hierarchies to uproot, a country so young and iconoclastic and resource-rich?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of hierarchy

Noun

In the overall teen ranking for spring ’25 and Fall ’25 and ’26 surveys, On maintained its seventh place ranking.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Some companies may have paid an application fee in order to be considered, but this payment does not impact a company's inclusion or ranking.

— Time, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

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The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is perhaps the greatest chronicler of that era of scale, which stretched across the long twentieth century and only now shows the first signs of receding.

— Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
Clean energy, on the other hand, has served as a critical defense mechanism that has kept the energy price crisis from getting worse in places where it has been deployed at scale.

— Justin Worland, Time, 17 Oct. 2026

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