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hierarchy

noun as in order

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However, if you begin to look carefully at sentences, what you find is that they are organized in this hierarchy.

Forbes was generally a pretty platooned place, and there was a hierarchy and knowledge was exchanged very judiciously in the ranks.

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Usually, at some point below board level, someone in the hierarchy doesn’t have time to think purely about organic non-brand clicks.

Upfronts upendedAs the playing field levels between the TV companies and the streaming platforms, the hierarchy for upfront negotiations has the potential to be upended.

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We try to understand the ways in which hierarchies are created and maintained.

Copies of the letter were sent to senior members of the church hierarchy and to the Soviet government.

Absolutely: “Courage I would rank now in the hierarchy of art and love.”

It was, I have to say, at the bottom of the hierarchy of royal honors, a British Empire Medal.

Information received from the different branches of the ISIS network is channeled up through a strict hierarchy.

A strong sense of hierarchy took root as the schools expanded.

Later still, for the same reason, when he was making his hierarchy stronger, he created him one of his new Dukes.

Under a Philippine hierarchy there would be a danger of the natives reverting to paganism and fetichism.

As our oldest member used to say, "A society without a hierarchy is like a house without a staircase."

This hierarchy of all feudal seigniories existed in name only, never in fact.

Without sifting the nature of Beauty, without giving some definition of it, nobody can attempt to construct a Hierarchy of Art.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hierarchy, such as: pecking order, ranking, echelons, grouping, position, and pyramid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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