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
And unlike previous generations, Gen Z workers don’t view the promotional ladder as the Holy Grail, Duchene observes.
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Nick Rockel, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
Higher income, higher housing costs While lower-income households have a higher share of people who live paycheck to paycheck, some families that are higher up on the income ladder also fall into the same category.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
Sofia exists in a parallel to Farrell’s Penguin, as an outsider with the odds stacked against them, an underdog who manages to climb the ladder through ruthless acts of violence.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Next up the ladder is the $4.99 monthly SoundCloud Go plan, which grants ad-free and offline listening.
—PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
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Nick Rockel, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
Higher income, higher housing costs While lower-income households have a higher share of people who live paycheck to paycheck, some families that are higher up on the income ladder also fall into the same category.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
Sofia exists in a parallel to Farrell’s Penguin, as an outsider with the odds stacked against them, an underdog who manages to climb the ladder through ruthless acts of violence.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Next up the ladder is the $4.99 monthly SoundCloud Go plan, which grants ad-free and offline listening.
—PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladder
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Announced tonight to open in April 2026, the glass-and-concrete masterpiece is designed amorphous and horizontal—like Los Angeles itself—to foster LACMA director Michael Govan’s vision of a democratic curation of artworks, mixing various eras and geographies without wings and hierarchies.Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024
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Lee also attended Michel Foucault’s lectures in Tokyo in 1970, and the French theorist’s revolutionary approach to hierarchies of power—his foregrounding of horizontality and relation—finds a subtle echo in the approachability and simplicity of Lee’s unassuming sculptures and paintings.Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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Las Lomas and Gunn enter the rankings, San Ramon Valley, Archbishop Riordan rise after winning regular-season finales.Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Tulane 8-2 98 – Dropped out of rankings: Iowa State (17), Pittsburgh (23), Vanderbilt (24).Eric Olson, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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At a larger, suburban scale, coyote populations thrived.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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The Etekcity scale syncs seamlessly with Apple Health for easy tracking.Juhi Wadia, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Ladder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladder. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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