hierarchical

Example Sentences

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To Trump, who has rigidly hierarchical notions of gender, that probably seems emasculating.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Since the raid, U.S. prosecutors have softened their earlier depiction of the Cartel de los Soles as a hierarchical organization led by Maduro, instead framing it as a patronage network among corrupt senior officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 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

As is the case in all hierarchical organizations, the problem starts at the top.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

How could these hierarchical, acquisitive, market-oriented, monotheistic, ethnocentric newcomers have absorbed ideas and customs from the egalitarian, reciprocal, noncapitalistic, pantheistic, ethnocentric natives?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann