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as in hierarchy
a scheme of rank or order
in one ranking of the best places to live, San Francisco surpassed all the other cities in the U.S.
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as in rank
the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement
the President's ranking in the polls is at its highest level since he took office
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as in being
to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes
my favorite pitcher ranks first in the league for number of consecutive outs
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as in classifying
to arrange or assign according to type
most critics would rank him among our best actors
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Recent Examples of ranking
Time Staff, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Taylor Swift was the last musician, regardless of genre, to accomplish the feat on the December 9, 2023 chart, with five albums in the top ranking.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Favorably, according to the current NET rankings 12.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
That stretch of victories earned Hooker the No. 14 ranking in the 155-pound division against the No. 5 ranked Edson Barboza in the co-main event of a UFC on FOX card.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
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Noun
This year, for the first time, TIME will debut a ranking of the World's Top HealthTech Companies, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings.
—Time Staff, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Taylor Swift was the last musician, regardless of genre, to accomplish the feat on the December 9, 2023 chart, with five albums in the top ranking.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Favorably, according to the current NET rankings 12.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
That stretch of victories earned Hooker the No. 14 ranking in the 155-pound division against the No. 5 ranked Edson Barboza in the co-main event of a UFC on FOX card.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranking
Noun
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According to Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy of needs, national cultures and ethnic backgrounds vary yet the underlying logic of consumption is fundamentally similar; people's basic consumption needs are consistent.—
Russell Flannery,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Bergoglio was consecrated into the priesthood as a Jesuit, a religious order explicitly averse to moving up within the ranks of the church hierarchy.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But, with the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces severely depleted, Olha wasn’t so sure.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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The agency's workforce cuts come as the ranks of Americans receiving Social Security benefits have swelled to an all-time high, largely due to the aging baby boomer population.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Wednesday against the popular Netflix dating show, classifying its stars as employees and accusing the program of several labor violations.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
13 Dec. 2024
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Those deaths aren't counted in our statistics, and that's primarily because of the difficulty in classifying those deaths in a disaster.—
Melody Schreiber,
NPR,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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While elite schools and second-tier colleges may thrive, those further down the selectivity ladder face an existential crisis.—
Scott White,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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At greasing time, each of us competitors climbed a ladder held stable by a 610 Stomper and a Merry Antoinette.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Axios,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This cylinder was then placed inside the barrel, which rotates around it until it is toasted to a level three out of four.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2025
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At the high school level, national estimates analyzed by UCLA’s Williams Institute put the number of transgender athletes around 122,000.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This significant sum is still nowhere near the scale of the cuts Republicans apparently want to make.—
Nicole Huberfeld,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2025
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Amazon’s fulfillment centers exemplify this transformation at scale, with over 750,000 mobile robots worldwide navigating complex environments to retrieve items.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Royals would like him to get on base more often in order to have runners in scoring position for the top of the order.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
3 Mar. 2025
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But still the firm offered him the position — handling small tasks like making copies.—
Laura Kwerel,
NPR,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The Nordstroms have been able to improve Rack by placing a greater focus on better brands at the off-pricer, including some of the better-selling labels that can found at the Nordstrom full-price department stores.—
David Moin,
WWD,
24 Dec. 2024
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If any athletes who finished on the podium had already received an invitation to X Games Aspen, the automatic berth went to the next-highest-placing rider(s) or skier(s).—
Michelle Bruton,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Ranking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranking. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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