hierarchies
Example Sentences
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“Up All Night” is filled with examples of how nightclubs subverted social hierarchies and thrived in opposition to mainstream culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
This is the Christian tradition: questioning inherited norms, unsettling comfortable hierarchies, insisting that the ethical imagination can go further than traditional society allows.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Those species often have more rigid dominance hierarchies and predictable succession systems.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
Setting recent works among older ones is an effective element of LACMA’s overall plan to shed outworn hierarchies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Everywhere you turn, hierarchies are being challenged from below or are transforming themselves from top- down structures into more horizontal and collaborative ones.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
