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ladder

[lad-er] / ˈlæd ər /


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Doing so rearranged the energy ladder, producing different patterns that matched predictions from the tricritical Ising theory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Another move is to use a bond ladder that spreads investments among bonds with progressively later maturity dates, according to Collin Martin, head of fixed-income research and strategy for the Schwab Center for Financial Research.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Ethel Mwedziwendira, 30, once envisioned an extended climb up the corporate ladder.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Finally, help arrived when a passerby lowered the woman from the window with the help of a ladder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Then I pull down the ladder, and Gabi and I climb up into the darkness.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

You’re right that standing up all day is tough, even if you’re not lugging boxes to and from the warehouse or climbing ladders and risking your health to help a customer or to restock shelves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Inside the shop, the walls are lined with neatly organized shovels, pickaxes, and ladders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Much of the focus on AI’s impact on work has highlighted jobs—how corporate ladders will be structured and how staff might be reduced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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 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

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

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

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




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