ladders

noun

plural of ladder
as in hierarchies
a scheme of rank or order their team placed third on the tournament ladder

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Recent Examples of ladders Stewart leaves ladders by his house so any community members who stay behind can reach the roof, and Sierka credits a neighbor for keeping that house standing during Woolsey. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026 As the two clubs meet on Wednesday night, each on different trajectories in football’s world of snakes and ladders, that question remains. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026 There are two aluminum ladders on the wall, and students have 12 minutes to climb up and down 10 times. — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2026 But because a film shoot is kind of boring, most of us abandoned the ladders after an hour, leaving my brother to watch the rest of the filming alone. — Sarah Shanfield, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026 To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest. — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 On top of that, police urge folks to lock their doors, cars and sheds and even keep ladders away from houses. — Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 The initial phase of work first began around two years ago, removing the metal silos and other immediately dangerous items, like ladders frequently used by trespassers and rusty metal pieces around the property. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026 The finished basement adds two extra bedrooms, one featuring bunk beds reached by steps, not temporary ladders. — Richard Lane, Des Moines Register, 31 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladders
  1. hierarchies
  2. rankings
  3. scales
  4. series
Noun
  • Its nascent democratic system confronted entrenched social hierarchies of caste and power.
    — Asim Ali, Time, 24 Oct. 2026
  • How far might a nation go that had no kings to depose, no entrenched hierarchies to uproot, a country so young and iconoclastic and resource-rich?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of hierarchies
Noun
  • Texas dominated many national rankings in the report as well, with the ZIP code encompassing the Dallas suburb of Crandall ranking second on the list and a more urban Dallas ZIP code ranking 10th.
    — Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 28 Feb. 2026
Definition of rankings
Noun
  • Instead, as would later happen in Kansas and Nebraska, slaveowners and Southern sympathizers on the one hand and abolitionists and Free-Soilers on the other all flocked to California to try to tip the political scales in their favor.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • This discovery establishes a new way to couple mechanical motion and electricity at the smallest scales, opening new possibilities for molecular electronics.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of scales
Noun
  • The team trails 2-1 in the series and will look to even the series before the Finals return to San Francisco for game five on Monday night.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The six-episode, 30-minutes-per-episode series is as breezy as the Irish coast’s weather.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of series

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