grading

present participle of grade

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of grading Teachers will be able to use AI tools for creating lesson plans and completing administrative tasks, but not for grading assignments. Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026 Hinojosa promised to pause the A-F school grading system and replace it with an assessment that brings true accountability. Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026 Pro Football Focus ranked him fourth in a grading system that factors in hang time, directional placement and situational execution. Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Tasks included scooping and dumping sand or gravel, digging and grading trenches, clearing debris from roads, removing tree branches from water edges, and breaking up rocks. New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026 Projects such as new construction, additions, alteration or repairs, grading, retaining and fence walls, sign permits, swimming pools, change of use and use of land permits would qualify for fast-tracking. City News Service, Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026 Through a new partnership with Cine Chromatix, the winning project presented in the Co-Production Pitch Selection will receive an in-kind post-production award worth €25,000 ($30,000) for colour grading services. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026 The Donalds‘ vision for Florida students includes overhauling the state’s grading system for schools and opening the doors to Florida’s education system more widely to private enterprise. Kairi Lowery, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026 Faculty at Columbia University have been considering undergraduate grading changes, and a Dartmouth College committee on grading practices and assessment will report its initial progress to the faculty this winter. Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grading
Verb
  • The following conversation touches on Rock's latest project and process, writing young characters and classifying his own work into a genre.
    Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Edwards and Magee spent decades classifying them, and the most important distinction is between a breakaway gap and everything else.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Pentagon subjected high-ranking members to polygraph tests as part of an investigation into the source of leaks to journalists about how the war in Iran has created a shortage of sophisticated munitions, according to multiple media reports.
    Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Her clever approach looks at a large number of middle schools in Norway, ranking their divergent smartphone policies across a range from strictness to leniency.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.
    Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This time around, however, the tech giant is establishing parameters on mass arbitration by grouping them in batches of 25, 100, and 500, depending on the total number of claimants with similar issues.
    Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Moreover, certified testing by the Korea Testing & Research Institute (KTR) verified the materials won’t degrade, rating them for over 10 years of continuous use.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Maybe more people are seeing the production on streaming and rating it on IMDB instead of RT.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • However, recent scholarship posits that the structure was used as ordinary (rather than punitive) housing, and that the vulgar decor was in fact a distinguishing characteristic of the epoch.
    Jim Greer, SPIN, 3 Sep. 2026
  • This is particularly useful because deer are often active during twilight, when detecting predators can be more important than distinguishing a broad range of colors.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Traffic lights were out at about 80 intersections, so city workers were using generators and placing stop signs at those intersections, the statement said.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Hours later, her parents were arrested in Carter County, Tennessee — more than 350 miles away — and charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk or willfully abandoning a child.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Niutech claims its process can accept low-value plastic waste without requiring the complex washing, sorting and drying processes commonly associated with recycling.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Four Russian glide bombs destroyed a sorting center belonging to the postal service Nova Poshta in the northern Sumy region, and a drone smashed one of its depots in the Kyiv region, the company said.
    Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Grading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grading. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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