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One consequence of this winner-take-all market is that the corporations not at the top of the profit ladder are forced to fight over little more than the crumbs.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

After studying law, Rubio quickly climbed the political ladder, winning his first election in 1998.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Here, a filmmaker who managed to reach the peak of Olympus makes the prideful, ill-fated decision to hoist a ladder toward the stars, trying to get even higher, past where even the Gods can see.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Beijing wants “to move up the ladder fast and dominate technologies. For that, the fact that people consume and go to the cinema doesn’t really help.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Mrs. Clarke was not a small woman, nor a young one, but she scurried down the ladder as nimbly as a squirrel.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

We would pay professionals to do jobs such as major painting, anything on tall ladders, annoying stuff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Silence reigned in the Pavilion of Thought, broken only by the wheels of ladders and the shush of pages turning.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

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