graduated

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The Colorado measure would scrap the state’s flat income tax and establish a graduated system, raising taxes for people making more than $500,000 a year and lowering them for people under that level.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

However when she graduated, the reality of life outside the college bubble bit hard.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

"We have a graduated set of options for responding," she said in a speech in Frankfurt, where the ECB has its headquarters.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

He returned to South Sudan as a teenager and graduated with honors from one of its most competitive high schools.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

This was a device known as a ‘compass’—a graduated metal instrument that could be used as a calculator.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin