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 Southeast Asia is riding an investment boom, as a surge in chip exports pushes economies like Vietnam and the Philippines up the World Bank’s income ladder, as defined by the World Bank. — Sam Beltran, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026 Video footage released by Romania's intelligence service showed a person climbing the ladder of a building's fire escape, followed by brief flashes and flames engulfing a building. — Stephen McGrath, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026 With does everywhere around his ladder stand, Ferriman noticed movement on a trail and quickly realized the huge non-typical buck was headed toward his mineral site. — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Oct. 2026 Video footage released by the intelligence service showed a person climbing the ladder of a building’s fire escape, followed by brief flashes and flames engulfing a building. — Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ladder

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Noun

The film’s symmetrical compositions, the careful placement of characters within these distinctive spaces, all serve to create a sense of immovable social hierarchy and repression.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
Decades earlier, Atlanta had thrown its own enormous party, celebrating a fantasy of Southern womanhood while reinforcing the racial and social hierarchies of the real South—and conveniently leaving the horrors of slavery out of the picture.

— Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of hierarchy

Noun

Bishop Moore has climbed the state ranking ladder and is the top seed in 4A with by far the strongest strength of schedule for that class.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
But because of their initial ranking, any slip-ups could push the Bruins out of the top 12.

— Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of ranking

Noun

Even Schumer did not expect the scale of Democrats' victories on Tuesday, which extended far beyond the Senate.

— Theodoric Meyer The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
Shifts in scale allude to the fractal nature of the narrative, and characters and story lines make cameo appearances from booklet to booklet.

— Chris Ware, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026

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