hierarchies
Example Sentences
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Ilaiyaraaja's mastery of the form helped disrupt those hierarchies.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
This is the Christian tradition: questioning inherited norms, unsettling comfortable hierarchies, insisting that the ethical imagination can go further than traditional society allows.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Those species often have more rigid dominance hierarchies and predictable succession systems.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
“I don’t love when hierarchies of appreciation form.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
By the time of Liszt and Wagner, the hierarchies were all but gone.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
