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hierarchies

NOUN

order

Synonyms

STRONGEST

pecking order ranking

STRONG

echelons grouping position pyramid scale

WEAK

chain of command due order placing

Example Sentences

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Ilaiyaraaja's mastery of the form helped disrupt those hierarchies.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 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

Civil rights advocates argue that individual group members “represent” the race and that hierarchies of power that lack diversity are illegitimate.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander