order of things
Example Sentences
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He’d become the leader who would navigate McDonald’s through the storms of the pandemic, an uncertain economy and now an era of influencers debating where his company ranks in the order of things.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
All season long there's been questions asked of them and their capacity to keep going, to keep threatening to rip up the established order of things in Scotland.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
The offer made her cry, both because it was so kind and because she felt it was the wrong order of things.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025
She has the self-centeredness of so many of those who mess with the natural order of things, and ignores some of the Creature’s own needs to use him for her benefit.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024
At such a time, the Negro can look at the starlit skies and find that he has, after all, a place in the universal order of things.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
