hierarchies

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Hierarchies are an implicit part of the natural history museum experience, where you’ll find halls devoted to cultures from Africa, Asia and the Americas but no hall of European culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

Hierarchies can be repressive, rules can be absurd, and bosses can be toxic.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2018

And when “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012” was published in 2013, it was a major event.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2016

Hierarchies can be just as valuable to the process of creative destruction as networks.

From Economist • Sep. 23, 2010

Hierarchies exist everywhere, but especially in locker rooms.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides