Another realignment wave could offer them a path to the same competitive tier as the outbound Pac-12 schools.—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024 Watch the shows Rides get a lot of the love, but Universal Orlando’s live entertainment is top tier.—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024 Inspired by baseball pennants, some have compared the ballpark’s design to the Sydney Opera House, while others likened the individual tiers to the scales of an armadillo.—Jill Martin, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024 The Swedish audio company is also going to introduce a new basic tier that will offer music and podcasts — but not audiobooks — under its current plan.—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024 Based on public statements from its ad team, the company appears to have focused instead in recent years on launching the ad tier for Max, its streaming platform that replaced HBO Max in 2023.—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024 More than 2 million others won prizes at lower award tiers, according to the lottery.—Dalia Faheid, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024 Currently, the only way to watch every session live is through Max’s premium B/R Sports subscription tier or MotoGP’s own in-house streaming service.—Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024 Weapon mods can also be looted or crafted out of two of the same mods of a lower tier.—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Verb
Everyone from senior security leadership to tier one security analysts needs to understand their hybrid, multicloud environment.—Forbes, 1 July 2022 Storage today must instead protect our data, tier it across different media, manage it across clouds, catalog the unstructured bits, and integrate it into new cloud-native workflows.—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023 The state decided to tier the ongoing Phase 1B, meaning that some Phase 1B groups have become eligible before others.—Emily Brindley, courant.com, 18 Feb. 2021 But, according to the think tank, there are a variety of options to limit the fiscal impact even in that scenario: Central banks could tier their reserves so some offer a lower interest rate, for one.—Mike Bird, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle French tire rank, from Old French — more at attire
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