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grader

[grey-der] / ˈgreɪ dər /


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John DeMuria, chief executive of coffee supply-chain company Coastal Commodities, and a grader of 35 years, said he failed the first time he tried.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

“It’s a very tough test,” says Terrance Sullivan, who has been a coffee grader for 41 years.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

She’s been pushing for San Marcos Unified to change its policies and is homeschooling her first grader in the meantime.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

Although Liam has since been released, “We’ve had other students in our building also taken in. We realized a fifth grader was also at the detention center; they had just kind of disappeared.”

From Salon Mar. 2, 2026

That didn’t seem like the sort of thing a normal seventh grader would do.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The seller, it turned out, had been auctioning coins that had been cleaned or artificially altered—a serious flaw that graders flag and collectors shun, rendering the coins nearly impossible to resell at a profit.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Essentially, Green Dot looks at the results of state tests for 8th graders; these tests indicate the academic level of students just before they enter Locke.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

This Baltic nation of 1.3 million people just gave all of its 10th and 11th graders their own ChatGPT accounts to use for school.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

“It’s very attractive to all ages, not just the little kindergartners and first graders, but all the way up to third, fourth, fifth graders,” Lazzareschi says.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2026

Sixth graders head straight to the cafeteria and seventh and eighth graders are supposed to line up in the gym before first period.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh




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