hierarchies

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Those species often have more rigid dominance hierarchies and predictable succession systems.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

In corporate hierarchies, researchers have historically been deemed a “higher class of citizens,” Michelle Li, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026

Instead of presenting an organized system of knowledge, whose stylistic or chronological categories suggested hierarchies, it would free visitors, a press release claims, “from prescribed paths to follow their own curiosity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Thoreau held a deep suspicion of government and all hierarchies, including armies and corporations.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

They’d spent virtually all their nineteen years on the periphery of various things—families, teams, churches, school cliques—and had developed a profound suspicion of hierarchies, authorities, institutions, bureaucracies, and anything connected with them.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz