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- noun Plural form of
hierarchy .
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Examples
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I take it that he cannot support his claim that the ISSS page on hierarchies is incorrect.
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His understanding of phylogenies and nested hierarchies is completely muddled.
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I take it that he cannot support his claim that the ISSS page on hierarchies is incorrect.
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Paul Graham's essay on high school status hierarchies is required reading here.
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Such a design is crucial in understanding the nationwide administrative hierarchies from the Yuan period onward, as provincial units constituted the fundamental structure of late Chinese empires.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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The inhabitants here are arranged in hierarchies more elaborate than Manhattan real estate, she said: Those at the edges use oxygen, while those in the middle are anaerobes.
Gut Reactions 2008
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The inhabitants here are arranged in hierarchies more elaborate than Manhattan real estate, she said: Those at the edges use oxygen, while those in the middle are anaerobes.
Gut Reactions 2008
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First, the fight reiterates the fact that homosocial bonds can also work to maintain hierarchies of class and race, as well as gender, excluding not only women but "Other" men: blacks, Jews, homosexuals, and so on.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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As for the latter part of your sentence, if you are claiming that the critiquing of sequence hierarchies is done by non-evolutionary biologists, you'd be spectacularly wrong.
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As for the latter part of your sentence, if you are claiming that the critiquing of sequence hierarchies is done by non-evolutionary biologists, you'd be spectacularly wrong.
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