hierarchy
Example Sentences
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Eger dismissed that notion, saying there was no hierarchy of traumas.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Typically, employees at the top of a corporate hierarchy are managers — but members of technical staff don’t manage other people, focusing instead on technical output.
From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026
Historian Bernard Capp, Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick, explains that hat etiquette once reinforced social hierarchy.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
"So there's no hierarchy between sculpture, painting, fashion, photography and no hierarchy between bodies, between the classical body or the disabled body."
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Sometimes, I look at him and cry, and he shrugs and tells me that Oladipupo, the chief of his cell—they have a system of hierarchy in the cells—has been awaiting trial for eight years.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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