hierarchically
- a word derived from hierarchical.
- a word derived from hierarchy.
Example Sentences
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Based on investigation of the scattering system found in the beetle's scales, the cooling ceramic was engineered with a hierarchically porous structure.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
This time around, all participants will be seated together at hierarchically neutral round tables to facilitate discussion.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Therefore, the ideal type of bureaucracy, the Weberian model, was one in which agencies are apolitical, hierarchically organized, and governed by formal procedures.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
In effect, the society was divided into hereditary chief and commoner classes, with Hawaiian chiefs themselves subdivided into eight hierarchically ranked lineages, each concentrating its marriages within its own lineage.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
