lower ranks
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The company has also shuffled its lower ranks over that time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
Mr. Jordan was once a bomb-thrower from the lower ranks of the GOP who worked his way into top committee posts.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
A pilot program allows young enlisted soldiers — those in the three lower ranks — to get a promotion if they refer someone who enlists and goes to basic training.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
If a daughter were to complete secondary school and become a teacher, she crossed the threshold into the lower ranks of the middle class.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
But the remarkable thing is, that in the decline of the empire, it was in the lower ranks that the greatest and most fatal weakness first appeared.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
