low-ranking
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Taiwanese military investigators, law-enforcement authorities and prosecutors interviewed for this article described a trend in China’s effort: the increasing use of messaging apps and online loan offers to target low-ranking members of Taiwan’s armed forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
At trial, Sexton’s attorney portrayed him as an “overeager kid” trying to help the FBI, a low-ranking jailer who exaggerated his importance in the scheme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
Banerjee was accompanied by two low-ranking assistants and two labourers, Lahiri notes in her book.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
Whereas low-ranking females frequently travel great distances in search of food, the matriarchs spend more time nursing their offspring in communal clan dens.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2024
Are you so low-ranking that you don’t know I was pretending to be the guerrilla leader Jen all along?
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
