hierarchical
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"The hierarchical structure of the military places power with rank, especially in a training facility," he said.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
This is how deeply hierarchical and authoritarian institutions function.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026
It proposes to address hierarchical orders, social rank, slavery, colonialism, expropriation and the interweaving of mind and body, matter and spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
For many years, scholars believed that constructing Poverty Point required a strictly organized, hierarchical society working across generations.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025
How could these hierarchical, acquisitive, market-oriented, monotheistic, ethnocentric newcomers have absorbed ideas and customs from the egalitarian, reciprocal, noncapitalistic, pantheistic, ethnocentric natives?
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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