as in hierarchies
a scheme of rank or order
their team placed third on the tournament ladder
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Recent Examples of ladders
Taube points to recession-resistant sectors like healthcare and the use of bond ladders as ways to build stability.
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
The ladders were erected under the nets, waiting for the players and coaches to cut them down; UConn left them alone and the workers took the ladders away after everybody left the court.
—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
Darby Allin was falling off ladders and glass and thumbtacks.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Elaborate breads are baked into the shapes of carpenter’s tools, ladders, and canes, which symbolize Joseph’s staff, while bread crumbs are scattered to represent sawdust.
—Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
Once the ladders and ropes are set along the Khumbu Icefall to Camp II, other Sherpas ferry oxygen bottles, medicine and various essentials to high camps.
—Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies will test drones that can ferry loads as heavy as 35 pounds in the high altitudes, bring back ladders used to set the climbing routes, and remove waste that is typically left behind.
—Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
Crews on the apron are seen scrambling with ladders to help passengers off the wing.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
Heavy smoke could be seen pouring out of the roof as firefighters hosed down the scene from tower ladders.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
The ladders were erected under the nets, waiting for the players and coaches to cut them down; UConn left them alone and the workers took the ladders away after everybody left the court.
—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025
Darby Allin was falling off ladders and glass and thumbtacks.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Elaborate breads are baked into the shapes of carpenter’s tools, ladders, and canes, which symbolize Joseph’s staff, while bread crumbs are scattered to represent sawdust.
—Cindy Salvato, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025
Once the ladders and ropes are set along the Khumbu Icefall to Camp II, other Sherpas ferry oxygen bottles, medicine and various essentials to high camps.
—Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies will test drones that can ferry loads as heavy as 35 pounds in the high altitudes, bring back ladders used to set the climbing routes, and remove waste that is typically left behind.
—Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
Crews on the apron are seen scrambling with ladders to help passengers off the wing.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
Heavy smoke could be seen pouring out of the roof as firefighters hosed down the scene from tower ladders.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladders
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Racial hierarchies may be scrambling, but the reality that the existing global order was birthed to entrench racist beliefs cannot be erased.—
Zachariah Mampilly,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Apr. 2025
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While Henry worries about the risks of invasion by Spain or of a religious civil war, Cromwell, whom nobles nickname Crumb for his low birth, envisions a world that’s less beholden to ancient hierarchies.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Tipping the scales like that, the Area-51 laptops don’t feel like just a resurrection of Alienware’s flagship brand name but a throwback to older, basically immobile desktop replacement laptops.—
Antonio G. Di Benedetto,
The Verge,
7 Jan. 2025
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At current scales, nobody can compete with DJI.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to lying to his FBI handler about the Biden family's ties to a Ukrainian energy company -- in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Having first launched in 2004, the Like a Version series has gone from being a near-impromptu acoustic affair to featuring larger studio productions.—
Tyler Jenke,
Billboard,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Ladders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladders. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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