ladder

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Testing by The Ladder Association found every extendable telescopic ladder it bought online failed safety checks.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

"Those apartments are then not available for young people struggling to get on the housing ladder," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Another relative, Raúl Castro’s grandnephew Oscar Pérez-Oliva, has rapidly climbed Cuba’s political ladder and is seen as a potential successor to President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Each rung of the ladder is an inflation-protected security maturing in a successive year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

On the corner across from the Shoulder of Mutton, a man stands on a ladder.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin