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graded

  • past participle of grade.
  • past tense form of grade.

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In Germany, where Chancellor Friedrich Merz supports restricting or even banning social media for children, an expert commission has proposed two options: a ban graded by age or platform-specific restrictions.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

The answers are carefully graded against set parameters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

That might be done by filling it with debris from hospital construction and graded earth or by leveling it with parking structures that would support an elevated ground floor.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

His cancer was graded stage three, and is not in his bones or nervous system.

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

Even if you lived on a hill just above the Bottoms, it seemed lower and danker than the meanest hut on a graded street.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson