gradation

Example Sentences

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And there’s a gradation between, because there are people who show up once and then might not show up for the rest of the year.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023

And we won’t be giving starred reviews — that kind of blunt gradation makes even less sense now than it did before.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

For both iterations of the show, she specified that the works should be hung unevenly, and the walls painted in a monochromatic gradation to produce an undulating effect.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021

For food professionals, who spend their lives exploring nuance and gradation in flavor, recourse is even more limited.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020

But there is a continuous gradation from triple systems through loose clusters of a few dozen stars to the great globular clusters, resplendent with a million suns.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan