rung
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At the lowest consumer-friendly rung rest affordable fillers and Botox injections.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Moody’s rated the capital structure Ba1, or the highest “junk”-rated category, while S&P Global and Fitch gave it at BBB- rating, the lowest rung in the investment-grade category.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
But he had also taught me some of Russian prison’s unwritten rules—and how I could avoid ending up in the lowest rung of its caste system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
As usual, the names of the victims were read out, and a bell was rung to mark major moments in the attack.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Instead I took the LSAT, wrote my senior thesis, and dutifully reached for the next rung, applying to the best law schools in the country.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
The team classified the excitations by their symmetry, exposing a second set of energy rungs that was hidden in the initial measurement.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
For about 40 years, physicists have used conformal field theories to calculate how far apart those energy rungs should be.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
California’s incentives, even after the recent expansion, are built for productions several rungs above them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Obrokta, 54, drives a Rolls-Royce and lives in an 10,500-square-foot lakefront mansion in the Orlando suburb of Windermere, but he spent most of his life on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
On the back, almost hidden against the wall, iron rungs led upward - a ladder.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
