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as in hierarchies
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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Relevance
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as in ranks
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rankings
Noun
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For Anwar, the prison setting provided a concentrated laboratory for exploring societal hierarchies.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2026 -
But talking about identity has ever-shifting rules and hierarchies that amount to bear-traps that can spring at any time.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Torres lasted only a few months in the rebel ranks.—
Manuel Rueda,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
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Join the ranks of 40,000 other shoppers and snag the RoC Derm Correxion Retinol Firming Serum Stick on Amazon.—
Essence Wiley,
InStyle,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Workers move between ladders while fresh paint lingers in the air, the space caught somewhere between warehouse and destination.—
Holly Alvarado,
Daily News,
11 Feb. 2026
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But today’s careers don’t always look like ladders.—
Ashley Herd,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The closing of the MRGO and the drop in salinity levels changed all that.—
Melina Walling,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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This respiratory season, the city of Chicago has seen the highest levels of emergency department visits and hospitalizations from flu since 2022.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Each has been given extraneous dramatic business, perhaps to balance the scales with Oliver and Ciara, and to underscore that this is a show about two sets of couples, their trust issues and their need for one another.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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In the case of the first-round pick, the player and the fit tipped the scales in the edge rushers’ favor over a player like Texas A&M’s KC Concepcion.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Having held senior positions in academia and European financial institutions, he was appointed deputy governor of the Bulgarian central bank in Sofia in 2023.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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During the six years, prosecutors said, the pair used their positions to capitalize on a racketeering enterprise defrauding the state, IRS and union members.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The lawsuit also levels a series of accusations against the city of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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The Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture series honors the late journalist and is considered the capstone of the university’s Burkle Center for International Relations.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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If the right thing, there still are questions about why details of the incident took two months to reach the highest echelons of state law enforcement — or become public.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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These latest files show the range and depth of Epstein's extraordinary reach into the upper echelons of society.—
Diana Paulsen,
ABC News,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Rankings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rankings. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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