gradation
Example Sentences
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Weeds are popping up, the scrub in the middle distance has turned golden and the serene sky above is a gradation of pale blues.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2022
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 food professionals, who spend their lives exploring nuance and gradation in flavor, recourse is even more limited.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020
The color is richer and the gradation considerably subtler, and, since the restoration is Parajanov’s original cut, the running time is 10 minutes shorter than the Kino version released in 2001.
From New York Times • May 24, 2018
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
Vocabulary lists containing gradation
"Love's Vocabulary," Vocabulary from the essay
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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Latin Love: Grad-, Gress-, meaning "to step"
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