lower ranks

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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

Hit by a sluggish stock market and economic slowdown, some Washington billionaires have gotten a little less wealthy and fallen to lower ranks on Forbes’ annual list of billionaires.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 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

Goldman has made some diversity progress among the lower ranks.

From Reuters • May 13, 2022

Grants of land are also proposed for the support of these officers and their residences, with distributions and pensions for the lower ranks of the soldiery, to whom the "croix d'honneur" is given.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various