Ranked in a sentence as an adjective

In that study, based on data for the year 2000, France was also ranked No. 1, with the lowest rate of avoidable deaths.

When space scientists ranked all the proposed missions under consideration, GP-B came in dead last.

Heck, that sub is so bad, that if you want to read a decent story you start at the bottom, with the lowest ranked items, and scroll up.

Analysts are ranked on a bell curve against each other, and bonus payouts among them are a zero-sum game.

It goes to inflating the administrative staffs and inflating the salaries of the highest ranked members of that staff.

Interesting bits from one of the linked articles>In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked the French health system as the best over all in the world.

And why spend 3x-5x the cost of a research student or postdoc to hire a software developer at competitive rates?I went to grad school in materials science at an R1 institution which was always ranked at 2 or 3 in my field.

Don't let the entire company live in fear for 18 months!As much as the stack rank was a thing at Microsoft in those days, even if you were the lowest ranked employees for 2 years, Microsoft was hard-pressed to actually fire anybody.

If I make a ranked list of all the ways that people spend their time, I cannot imagine a sensible scoring algorithm that puts making a quine relay lower in value than posting an internet comment bitching about somebody making a quine relay.

Analysts subtly dropping hints to senior bankers about how much harder they're working than the other analysts, both in an effort to get staffing diverted away from themselves and because analysts all get ranked against each other at the end of the year, which determines their bonus.

How many features do people fight nail and tooth for, that should be cut, just because if they aren't in the product they won't have anything to show for their work when review time comes around?People are terrified of making decisions, because if they make a bad one, it's going to look poorly when they're ranked.

Ranked definitions

adjective

arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas of the distribution"

See also: graded stratified