ladder
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Doing so rearranged the energy ladder, producing different patterns that matched predictions from the tricritical Ising theory.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
She has moved up the ladder, representing clients facing charges ranging from petty theft to homicide as well as special-circumstances cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ethel Mwedziwendira, 30, once envisioned an extended climb up the corporate ladder.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
One climbed a ladder with a fistful of nails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
There was a rolling ladder attached to the bookshelf, and Danny wanted to ask if he could slide around on it the way Belle did in Beauty and the Beast.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
You’re right that standing up all day is tough, even if you’re not lugging boxes to and from the warehouse or climbing ladders and risking your health to help a customer or to restock shelves.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
He said some passengers managed to escape, but many had to wait in hot conditions while firefighters used ladders to help them out.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The city is recommending “tamper-resistant steel cages around the units,” locking all exterior ladders and setting up motion-activated security cameras that would immediately notify business owners or landlords about unauthorized rooftop activity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Some species may have acted as fire ladders, helping flames move through the landscape while also crowding out and smothering other vegetation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
But when you came down to it, nothing really frightened him, not storms, not tall ladders, not even the scrael.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The ETF takes a laddered approach to investing in autocallables, resulting in staggered maturities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
BDC managers tell Barron’s that public debt is just one part of their financing structure and that their debt is laddered with staggered maturities.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
A dramatic musical score—like something out of a Marvel movie—plays loudly over clips of officers entering the windows of the garrisoned building, climbing on their laddered megatruck, and breaking the locks to the doors.
From Slate ● May 4, 2024
Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland Republican, pitched the idea of a laddered approach to draw in those who are leery of voting for a stopgap bill.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
His hand on the thin and laddered ribs.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Calamos uses a strategy called laddering to try and manage this downside risk.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
We might start by adopting “relatively low-risk actions and laddering up boldness from there.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
When we talked two years ago before all this happened, the investment was really in gaming, and that was laddering into creators.
From The Verge ● Dec. 21, 2021
There are loads of ways to draw down your portfolio, including with annuities, bond laddering and simply selling off financial assets piecemeal.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2018
I was a scholarship boy at the time, busily laddering my way up the rungs of education.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
