ladder
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Although DNA is often pictured as a long, twisted ladder, it does not simply stretch out inside a cell.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
I look down, and that’s when I spot the top of a ladder sticking up out the ground.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Above them huge cranes move with precision to build rooftops, while men balance on ladders to plaster brickwork.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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
Dancers spin onstage, kids wander in and out, and parents stand on tall ladders, hanging a huge Bayanihan banner from the rafters.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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
You could use something similar, like high-yield savings accounts or laddered CDs where the maturity dates expire every few months, or you could stick with an account like your Roth where you’d make withdrawals tax-free.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 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
Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland Republican, pitched the idea of a laddered approach to draw in those who are leery of voting for a stopgap bill.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 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
