nonhierarchical
- a word derived from hierarchical.
Example Sentences
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And yet the ultimate irony of the Geffen building is that its doctrine of a rigorously nonhierarchical museum, giving visitors absolute freedom to discover their own connections, is strenuously inflexible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
How do I gently say, “That is a YOU problem”? We work at a nonhierarchical organization.
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2024
There’s a modest, nonhierarchical quality to the presentation, and it avoids the usual corny ruminations on L.A. aesthetic clichés like sunshine-and-noir or the Dream Factory.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023
A nonhierarchical perspective would be that life emerges incrementally across many thresholds.
From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2023
Dark, cynical, morbid cyberpunk that I am, I cannot avoid considering some of the darker implications of "decentralized, nonhierarchical, locally empowered" networking.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
