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high-grade

[hahy-greyd] / ˈhaɪˈgreɪd /


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The researchers also plan to test the same intervention in high-grade ovarian cancer, another aggressive cancer that can be difficult to treat.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Amid ongoing concerns, district officials have assured parents schools are safe, campuses have been sanitized and high-grade air filters installed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

From there, he was diagnosed with high-grade bladder cancer and cancer in his right kidney.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

That compares with a high-grade corporate spread of about 80 basis points for the ICE BofA US Corporate Index, up from about 73 basis points in June.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

I got two high-grade Fonsos for my boss, and they won themselves out for him twenty times over in the next three years.

From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen

Jake sees it plain enough, that the lad thinks he's been high-graded, so he calls over our waiter and crowds all five watches onto him.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Could it possibly be high-graded, in spite of all the testimony to the contrary?

From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

Some high-grading for jumbos; largest 17" cutthroat and 18" rainbow.

From Seattle Times Apr. 26, 2010

He had to be shown that high-grading was costing him the very thing he was trying to find.

From The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones

"No—I 'll give you my word I have n't been high-grading," he said at last.

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

He used to smoke his pipe and watch the little woman and Babe go "high-grading" along the tunnel wall.

From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower

I thought maybe you had been doing a little high-grading or had been up there and sneaked away some of the ore for a salting proposition.

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper




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