grading

present participle of grade

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of grading Sports card shops and shows attract non-sports buyers and sellers, who rely on grading services for valuations and dealers for guidance and trends. — Bob Woods, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 Property owners should consider whether grading, vegetation, drainage features, or other site conditions are contributing to a recurring accumulation of water. — Christyne D. Santisteban, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026 Monique Scott to identify drainage and grading conditions within the park and consider potential longer-term improvements. — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 These permits usually signal the beginning of grading work and construction on a project. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026 The league usually hides these blunders behind closed doors and quiet internal grading-system tweaks. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Site work is ongoing at the Amazon Web Services development at 61st Avenue and Colorado Street, such as grading of the land, development of temporary buildings used by construction workers and engineers and building of a NIPSCO substation on-site. — Jeff Danielson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026 The developer estimates grading would take approximately three to four months. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Let the machines do what’s mechanical—generating practice problems, flagging errors, grading the responses that are beyond discussion. — Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grading
Verb
  • Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations.
    — Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Piper Sandler's survey offered signs that Vans may finally be stabilizing — ranking as the seventh-most-popular footwear brand among male teens after years of sinking in the rankings and climbing to ninth among upper-income male teens.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • What’s Trending in the NFL, ranking the most controversial coaching decisions from the past week.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In 2023, Canali debuted Care, an umbrella program grouping all the brand’s eco- and responsibility-minded initiatives.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Williams kept the respective songs from each album close together, grouping them in three- and four-track clusters.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Abbott Laboratories made the list with 65% of analysts rating the stock a buy.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
  • On a film-rating app, his previous film drew responses from about 15 people.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • For Jekyll-Hyde, the costumes are crucial and add to the characterization, distinguishing the two men inhabiting the same body.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • For voters scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms, distinguishing between independent commentary and paid political advertising is becoming increasingly difficult.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The presentation Monday night before the Plano city council revealed that widening some existing roads, adding new turn lanes to others and placing no parking signs in neighborhoods should address concerns about traffic among nearby homeowners.
    — J.D. Miles, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • By placing a fashion executive from PVH next to a global marketing executive from Coca-Cola and an independent visual artist, the house constructs a network of perspectives capable of sorting through complex challenges.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Its argument is that insurers have been pricing wildfire risk the wrong way, by looking backward at statistics and sorting homes by zip code.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Students are constantly running this calculation, sorting the people and institutions around them into who’s reliable and who isn’t.
    — Karl Mawhinney, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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“Grading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grading. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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