Example Sentences

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Ilaiyaraaja's mastery of the form helped disrupt those hierarchies.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

This is the Christian tradition: questioning inherited norms, unsettling comfortable hierarchies, insisting that the ethical imagination can go further than traditional society allows.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

Those species often have more rigid dominance hierarchies and predictable succession systems.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

“I don’t love when hierarchies of appreciation form.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Whatever sweet scenes you might witness on a playground, beneath them lay a tyranny of shifting hierarchies and alliances.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama