ladder
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A spokesperson said eight fire engines and a turntable ladder were sent to the scene, with no reports of any injuries.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
A family can hold more real assets than earlier generations did and still find the ladder harder to climb because the rungs that matter got more expensive faster than the wealth arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
She also wanted to move back home to Kent, but was worried about how she'd get on the housing ladder on her cabin crew salary.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
One consequence of this winner-take-all market is that the corporations not at the top of the profit ladder are forced to fight over little more than the crumbs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
We walked on home with the ladder, stepping high over shadows, in a drone of locusts and the gathering gloom, the night before school took up.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
CD ladders allow you to buy 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-year CDs, so that you have one maturing every year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Some species may have acted as fire ladders, helping flames move through the landscape while also crowding out and smothering other vegetation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
The city is recommending “tamper-resistant steel cages around the units,” locking all exterior ladders and setting up motion-activated security cameras that would immediately notify business owners or landlords about unauthorized rooftop activity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
In a hard hat and hi-viz vest, Asdourian appears climbing ladders to tape- and marker-over all mentions of the brand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
The porters’ ladders offered too much temptation to the penguins.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
BDC managers tell Barron’s that public debt is just one part of their financing structure and that their debt is laddered with staggered maturities.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
Allocating some money away from the stock market would make for more diversification — a set of bond funds or a laddered bond portfolio of bonds, for example.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025
A dramatic musical score—like something out of a Marvel movie—plays loudly over clips of officers entering the windows of the garrisoned building, climbing on their laddered megatruck, and breaking the locks to the doors.
From Slate ● May 4, 2024
Mr. Johnson’s plan uses a two-step laddered continuing resolution to fund different portions of the government until Jan. 19 and Feb. 2.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
His hand on the thin and laddered ribs.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
We might start by adopting “relatively low-risk actions and laddering up boldness from there.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
When we talked two years ago before all this happened, the investment was really in gaming, and that was laddering into creators.
From The Verge ● Dec. 21, 2021
There are loads of ways to draw down your portfolio, including with annuities, bond laddering and simply selling off financial assets piecemeal.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2018
Build off your initial ideas by interacting with others, combining ideas and laddering up the benefits scale.
From Forbes ● Apr. 16, 2014
I was a scholarship boy at the time, busily laddering my way up the rungs of education.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
