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rung

[ruhng] / rʌŋ /


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The trade’s unofficial motto—“deliver or die”—has never rung so true.

From The Wall Street Journal

Arithmetic explains part of this: When the rungs on the ladder are closer together, it’s easier to climb.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, let entrepreneurs and capital markets thrive, build order and create opportunities for everyone from the lowest to highest rungs of the economic ladder, and move society toward a higher purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal

From this, they deduced that DNA must have a three-dimensional, double-helix structure - like a twisted ladder with rungs formed of alternating salt and phosphate groups.

From BBC

“The gap between incomes high up the ladder and incomes in the middle and lower rungs — while substantial — did not change much during this period,” it said.

From MarketWatch