high-grade
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Following tests, Romero is now expected to miss up to eight weeks with a high-grade partial tear of his medial cruciate ligament.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
“Clearly these satellite deposits, like East Kalkaroo, lack continuous high-grade mineralization,” the broker says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
“You need to spread the field as far as you can,” said Maureen O’Connor, global head of high-grade debt syndicate at Wells Fargo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Hardie has a reputation as a high-grade tactician and shot maker, while McMillan and Lammie are credited with reinventing the role of a sweeper.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Many successful potato farmers depend largely upon clover, supplementing it with a small amount of high-grade complete fertilizer in the rows.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
Could it possibly be high-graded, in spite of all the testimony to the contrary?
From Wunpost by Coolidge, Dane
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 Wilson, Harry Leon
Some high-grading for jumbos; largest 17" cutthroat and 18" rainbow.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2010
"You're high-grading and you should be using a flotation process."
From The Great Gray Plague by Jones, Raymond F.
"No—I 'll give you my word I have n't been high-grading," he said at last.
From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley
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 Cooper, Courtney Ryley
He used to smoke his pipe and watch the little woman and Babe go "high-grading" along the tunnel wall.
From Casey Ryan by Bower, B. M.
