hierarchy

For days, he has been locked in meetings with his top advisors and military hierarchy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

In life she may have played second fiddle to the flamboyant Rivera, but time has reversed the artistic hierarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The study points to an unexpected role for early sensory brain regions in decision making, challenging the long accepted view that decisions emerge only after information moves through a strict hierarchy of brain regions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

That way, the hierarchy can allow players the freedom to celebrate a win or keep with traditions such as an end-of-series drink with the opposition at the conclusion of an Ashes series.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

There is, we are told, an infinite hierarchy of universes, so that an elementary particle, such as an electron, in our universe would, if penetrated, reveal itself to be an entire closed universe.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Ms. Brown catalogs the patient loads, paperwork and hospital hierarchies that wear nurses down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

“I don’t love when hierarchies of appreciation form.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

As soon as there was a centre of gravity, or a ‘home’ in the sound, the relationship between chords also started to coalesce into hierarchies.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall