high-grade
Americanadjective
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of excellent or superior quality.
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(of ore) yielding a relatively large amount of the metal for which it is mined.
verb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of high-grade
First recorded in 1875–80
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“Growing demand for premium steelmaking inputs, declining seaborne ore quality, and increasing blending requirements support structurally attractive economics for ultra high-grade iron ore producers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The company which owns the site, SOS Aggregates, denied it was dumping waste and said it was using "high-grade" recycled construction material to create a training area for horses and a stable.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The researchers also plan to test the same intervention in high-grade ovarian cancer, another aggressive cancer that can be difficult to treat.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Amid ongoing concerns, district officials have assured parents schools are safe, campuses have been sanitized and high-grade air filters installed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Because of its average rapid growth, high-grade wood and general freedom from insect and fungus attack, it should be widely planted in the State for timber production and as a shade tree.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
Could it possibly be high-graded, in spite of all the testimony to the contrary?
From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge
Jake sees it plain enough, that the lad thinks he's been high-graded, so he calls over our waiter and crowds all five watches onto him.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
Some high-grading for jumbos; largest 17" cutthroat and 18" rainbow.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2010
I thought maybe you had been doing a little high-grading or had been up there and sneaked away some of the ore for a salting proposition.
From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper
He used to smoke his pipe and watch the little woman and Babe go "high-grading" along the tunnel wall.
From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
"You're high-grading and you should be using a flotation process."
From The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones
He had to be shown that high-grading was costing him the very thing he was trying to find.
From The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones
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