hierarchical

More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

North Korean society is deeply hierarchical, with some analysts comparing it to a caste system.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

“Every day there’s quite literally new agents that are being created, and almost at every tier of the hierarchical structure,” Trkay said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

“I had been under this societal understanding that hierarchical love, placing one partner above everything else, was the ultimate romantic expression. I could name hundreds of movies that brought that up,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

Scholars deduced that the Sungir mammoth-hunters lived in a hierarchical society, and that the dead man was perhaps the leader of a band or of an entire tribe comprising several bands.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari