hierarchical

Example Sentences

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He wants to shake up its hierarchical culture, expand into robots and flying cars, and build factories in the U.S. faster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

This is how deeply hierarchical and authoritarian institutions function.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026

More than 300 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have declared their involvement in the Freemasons or other "hierarchical associations" after the force required them to do so last month, a High Court judge has said.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026

For many years, scholars believed that constructing Poverty Point required a strictly organized, hierarchical society working across generations.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

They don’t see any hierarchical gap between themselves and the pilots in the air, and to them, mitigated speech from a pilot doesn’t mean the speaker is being appropriately deferential to a superior.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell