ladder
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But, he added, an officer higher up the ladder “postponed the meeting and Gershkovich went to Yekaterinburg instead, where he was arrested in the end.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
Schools known for their success at helping students move up the economic ladder, like the University of California, Merced, and the University of California, Riverside, also fell.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build and help them pull up the ladder to market access behind them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
She made her way past the sleepy cows and shed her cloak at the base of the ladder so she might scurry up without getting tangled.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Above them huge cranes move with precision to build rooftops, while men balance on ladders to plaster brickwork.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Inside the shop, the walls are lined with neatly organized shovels, pickaxes, and ladders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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
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
Librarians on ladders like specters in gray, and scholars in scarlet hunched at their tables.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
The key point for her, though, is that MYGAs can be laddered, just like CDs and Treasurys.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
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
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
