hierarchies
Example Sentences
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That kind of reimagining is difficult, and threatens established hierarchies and routines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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
They’d spent virtually all their nineteen years on the periphery of various things—families, teams, churches, school cliques—and had developed a profound suspicion of hierarchies, authorities, institutions, bureaucracies, and anything connected with them.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
