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What was the word hierarchy originally coined to describe?

hierarchy

[hahy-uh-rahr-kee, hahy-rahr-] / ˈhaɪ əˌrɑr ki, ˈhaɪ rɑr- /


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The complex internal hierarchy of Israel’s kibbutzim ensures that only a few long-term residents—usually older people—have a vote in matters relating to governance, including the painful question of knocking down the houses of the kibbutz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Such extra dimensions have been proposed as one possible answer to the hierarchy problem, a longstanding question in physics that asks why gravity is dramatically weaker than the other fundamental forces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Fury was mostly directed towards the club's hierarchy, but the manager and his backroom team are now not immune from scrutiny.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

By broaching the moral consequences of machine learning, Littlejohn said Vance was pointing to a hierarchy of AI threats beyond just economic effects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

He’d referred to Assef as “Agha,” and I wondered briefly what it must be like to live with such an ingrained sense of one’s place in a hierarchy.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

These AI systems demonstrated the ability to coordinate, establish hierarchies among themselves, cheat and erase traces of their actions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

That kind of reimagining is difficult, and threatens established hierarchies and routines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Ilaiyaraaja's mastery of the form helped disrupt those hierarchies.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Those species often have more rigid dominance hierarchies and predictable succession systems.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

He said it was great and really refreshing, and that it was just the kind of thing to promote team interface, and to get everyone to work out their stop/go hierarchies.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson




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