Ladder in example sentence

According to Brill, this is an upshot of America’s meritocracy: the best and brightest had the chance to climb to the top, but then essentially pulled the ladder up behind them, as they captured democratic institutions and used them to entrench special privileges for themselves.

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So he went to the Church of Nativity and brought back an old ladder that was so old that it could have seen Jesus being born.

BJ: This is Adrian and Thys Stander, who went on to actually design the cane system for the horse, and our next-door neighbor Katherine, riding on a ladder.

She is able to climb a ladder in the park, push her scooter or kick a ball across the grass.

We collected data on problems with social gradients, the kind of problems that are more common at the bottom of the social ladder.

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