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as in hierarchy
a scheme of rank or order
in one ranking of the best places to live, San Francisco surpassed all the other cities in the U.S.
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as in rank
the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement
the President's ranking in the polls is at its highest level since he took office
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as in being
to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes
my favorite pitcher ranks first in the league for number of consecutive outs
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as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type
most critics would rank him among our best actors
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Recent Examples of ranking
IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
Weirdest touchdowns this season This is not a ranking of the coolest or most impressive touchdowns, though some may qualify as such.
—Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
Among the most widespread ones are human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia and syphilis, with gonorrhea also ranking high on the list.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Coders are now turning away from many of the public expressions of interest in different languages (like Google searches and Stack Exchange queries), which have served as key metrics for the ranking since 2013.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
Weirdest touchdowns this season This is not a ranking of the coolest or most impressive touchdowns, though some may qualify as such.
—Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
The Mustangs have been opportunistic on defense, ranking second nationally with nine interceptions.
—Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
Among the most widespread ones are human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia and syphilis, with gonorrhea also ranking high on the list.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranking
Noun
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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
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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
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Princeton University was deemed both the best university and school overall, according to WalletHub, due to its 4 percent acceptance rank and how 93 percent of the incoming students were in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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The organization, which counts about a million scouts in its ranks, offers hundreds of merit badges spanning everything from fishing to fingerprinting.—
Gordon Ebanks,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Originally designed for communications, these cables are now adapted to act as giant, passive sonar arrays capable of detecting, classifying, and tracking submarines, surface vessels, and other undersea activity across sea lanes.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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Once this pretraining stage is complete, the next step is to tailor V-JEPA to accomplish specific tasks such as classifying images or identifying actions depicted in videos.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Starting with the smallest first, the secondary bedroom is situated above the living room and is accessed by a removable ladder.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Oct. 2025
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In hindsight, a taller ladder would’ve been smarter.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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However, there are an equal amount of people who doubt his ability to stick around at the professional level.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Oct. 2025
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In 2019, the state of New Jersey ordered the owner of an industrial plant in West Deptford to address chemical contamination at the site, where high levels of PFNA had been found in the nearby soil and water.—
Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Both Robinson and McBride were net-rating kings for the Knicks last season — McBride during the regular season and Robinson in the playoffs — but neither jostled through many lineups.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The two big banks on the list, Citigroup and Bank of America , both have yields above 2% and about 60% of the analysts covering the stocks rating them a buy.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Opponents of gender ideology say grouping the two distinctly different terms together erodes decades of progress made by the gay rights movement.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2025
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To cope, Chinese companies have turned more to grouping large numbers of less efficient, often homegrown, chips together to achieve similar computing capabilities.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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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“Ranking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranking. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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