ladder
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Jo Hooper spent her 20s trying to climb the career ladder, quickly rising through the ranks with promotions and pay rises.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Lines said the fire service used an aerial ladder to free the passengers one-by-one.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
And the administration is heading back up the appellate ladder.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
They widened the small vent hole the bears had fallen through and put a ladder inside so the bears could climb out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The process of climbing down the ladder was slow, and at one point the mud on the bottom of Sydney’s shoe caused her to slip and almost fall.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
The research that discovered this truth about bond ladders was first presented in a 2015 article, “Bond Ladders and Rolling Yield Convergence.”
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
In Borneo, a mythic spider brings forth life by feeding a tree; in Polynesia, spider-silk ladders connect heaven and earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
That means if Mr. Johnson does go with the laddered approach, spending could be spared from the 1% slash.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 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
