hierarchies

Example Sentences

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That kind of reimagining is difficult, and threatens established hierarchies and routines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

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

Logic, however, lost out to Navy hierarchies and power games.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield