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grades

  • plural
    of grade.
    grade
    noun
    a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity.
  • present tense form
    of grade (3rd person singular).
    grade
    noun
    a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity.

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It ended up in a drawdown of 53%, so the declines after the yield gap between those two grades of junk bonds reached 8% were not that much worse.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Greer said that due to a cap on student numbers, QUB had turned away "around 500 students who had the grades to attend Queen's".

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Despite her results being eventually adjusted, she never got the A grades her prelims suggested she would get and she had to change course.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

“However, SFR expects higher ore grades and recoveries across the remainder of FY27 and production guidance remains unchanged,” Redfern says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Three weeks after the parent-teacher conference, he asked me how I’d been doing with my grades.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff