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
Other items listed in the top 20 product groups responsible for injuries included exercise equipment, cans, basketballs, ladders, desks, rugs and bathtubs.
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
The Oak Island Lighthouse was completed in 1958 and requires climbing up a series of ship ladders that reach more than 120 feet up to the top.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Two 32-meter turntable ladders are also on site, deployed as water towers to help extinguish the fire from height.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Camps must also have emergency rooftop ladders in every cabin in a 100-year floodplain.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Anybody with a wire cutter or ladders could be able to get in.
—Michael Evanoff, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Dozens of fire truck drivers extended their ladders to the roof of the plant to extinguish the blaze, a WSOC photo showed.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 30 Aug. 2025
There are two loft bedrooms in the Cabana, both of which have a low ceiling and are reached by removable ladders.
—New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
Unlike ladders that invest in multiple maturities, a bullet strategy focuses on assets that mature around the same timeline.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
The Oak Island Lighthouse was completed in 1958 and requires climbing up a series of ship ladders that reach more than 120 feet up to the top.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Two 32-meter turntable ladders are also on site, deployed as water towers to help extinguish the fire from height.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Camps must also have emergency rooftop ladders in every cabin in a 100-year floodplain.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Anybody with a wire cutter or ladders could be able to get in.
—Michael Evanoff, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Dozens of fire truck drivers extended their ladders to the roof of the plant to extinguish the blaze, a WSOC photo showed.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 30 Aug. 2025
There are two loft bedrooms in the Cabana, both of which have a low ceiling and are reached by removable ladders.
—New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
Unlike ladders that invest in multiple maturities, a bullet strategy focuses on assets that mature around the same timeline.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladders
Noun
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The Wax Child is about the dread of living in brutal hierarchies, and the shapes that friendship and protection take to counteract these grim realities.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Jobs across industry sectors and corporate hierarchies are threatened with AI replacement.—
Michael Peregrine,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That reframes how early magnetism seeded galaxies and plasma behavior on the largest scales.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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Scientists thought these spiky bits might be spiny scales, like those found on the bodies of rays and sharks.—
Staff Author,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Similar complaints were made in the 1990s and 2000s building boom that led to a series of functional stadia springing up across the UK, usually complete with bare breeze block walls that gave a pre-match pint on the concourse all the appeal of an evening spent down the local multi-story car park.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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That's why, for example, the US government has funded a series of Landsat satellites since 1972 to create an uninterrupted data catalog illustrating changes in global land use.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Ladders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladders. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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