order of things
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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
Sometimes a checklist is helpful to know the order of things.
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2024
They had heard the commotion but continued with their work as if, two years and thousands of deaths into the war, it was all part of the normal order of things.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
At such a time, the Negro can look at the starlit skies and find that he has, after all, a place in the universal order of things.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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