order of things
Example Sentences
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By making injustice into a kind of orphan, oppression is made to seem like the natural order of things.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
He’d become the leader who would navigate McDonald’s through the storms of the pandemic, an uncertain economy and now an era of influencers debating where his company ranks in the order of things.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The offer made her cry, both because it was so kind and because she felt it was the wrong order of things.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025
But the order of things is different now in this age of accelerated climate change.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025
He seemed to have given up and accepted the new order of things; and yet I was almost sure he had not.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
