hierarchical
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“Every day there’s quite literally new agents that are being created, and almost at every tier of the hierarchical structure,” Trkay said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“I had been under this societal understanding that hierarchical love, placing one partner above everything else, was the ultimate romantic expression. I could name hundreds of movies that brought that up,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
These include word order preferences, such as whether verbs come before or after objects, and hierarchical structures, such as how grammatical relationships are marked within sentences.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
This is how deeply hierarchical and authoritarian institutions function.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026
For example, common chimpanzees have a genetic tendency to live in hierarchical groups headed by an alpha male.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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