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[grayd] / greɪd /




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She told her dad that she suspected one of her teachers used AI to generate nearly everything and grade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Anti-Defamation League raised UCLA’s antisemitism grade from an F in 2024 to a B this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The new rules, known as PAS9980, grade the fire risk posed by a tower block's cladding system into four categories: high, medium, tolerable, and low.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the basement: what I believe are my first pair of hockey skates, a broken papier-mâché Groucho Marx puppet, and a Green Bay Packers helmet I hand-painted in fourth grade.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Rachel in first grade and Miles in the second half of second grade and Jackson in third.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Kimora Dean, who is autistic and has ADHD, had been thriving as a junior at John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Md., playing jazz piano and getting good grades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Once she quit using AI, her grades improved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Opponents of ditching testing requirements argued that the exams are a key tool to uniformly predict academic success from students of divergent backgrounds, as well as schools that may issue grades differently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Test scores and undergraduate grades are central to the department’s case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

I don’t care about grades, but I do care about all the trash I’ve seen around Driftaway Beach, strewn on the roads and sidewalks.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. insurers have around $40 billion of debt investments on their books that Egan-Jones has privately graded.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Among the criteria graded on Anderson's 'radar chart' were defensive regains, duel success, line-breaking passes, aerial-duel success and defensive errors.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s not just wearable trackers like Oura, Fitbit, Whoop and Ultrahuman that people are turning to for graded sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The bill only applies to specific developments, including those that are proposed on an graded infill site and those that pay construction workers a prevailing wage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The letters and numbers are neat and careful, like they were drawn by a child expecting to be graded.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

In the reports, OpenAI said that it had improved its alignment grading system to better penalize bad behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Postproduction covers anything that happens in the final stages of filmmaking, including specialties like sound design and color grading.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Trading-card grading volume is growing year over year, hitting a record high this April, and so is counterfeit activity.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

You might say that’s mawkish, or that I’m grading on a curve for a first-time filmmaker.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Before he even had time to answer, Ms. Webber looked up from the pile of papers she was grading and pointed to EJ.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds




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