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
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
It must fracture the settled order of things to make space for the not-yet-imagined.
From Salon • Jun. 29, 2025
They had heard the commotion but continued with their work as if, two years and thousands of deaths into the war, it was all part of the normal order of things.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
He seemed to have given up and accepted the new order of things; and yet I was almost sure he had not.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
