ladder

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One method focuses on nearby galaxies and builds up distance measurements step by step, similar to climbing a ladder.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

Because each step depends on the previous one, this approach is called the cosmic distance ladder.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

Ternus worked his way up the hardware design ladder at Apple over a quarter-century, and is best-known for leading the shockingly smooth transition of Macs from Intel chips to Apple’s own custom designs.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

This theory, codified in Cold War deterrence doctrine, held that matching force with roughly equal force would control the so-called escalation ladder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Each spiraling ladder of your DNA is a single, amazingly complex molecule.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland