ladder
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A third firefighter was injured by what he said felt like an electric shock while he was on an aerial ladder spraying water onto the building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
“It’s just amazing how China managed to climb up the income ladder so quickly,” said Schellekens, the U.N. economist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
A ladder can be useful if you know roughly when you’ll need the money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Women who people-please and don't show negative emotion can progress to a certain level on the career ladder, but to make it to the top you need to rock the boat, she argues.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
I hold the ladder steady, and Ray climbs higher.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
James Mayo, a financial planner in Lakewood, Colo., builds bond ladders, which means owning individual bonds or target-maturity bond funds with maturities that span multiple years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
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
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
He had seen what happened when a contractor failed to do this: ladders careening through windows and walls, tools damaging furniture, paint all over the lawn and driveway.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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
Calamos uses a strategy called laddering to try and manage this downside risk.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
I was a scholarship boy at the time, busily laddering my way up the rungs of education.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
