gradation
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In Latin America, as Hayes-Bautista explained, after centuries of Indigenous and Spanish intermingling, racial and ethnic lines were fluid, with myriad, subtle gradations of color, lineage and heritage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026
And unlike images—which can be distilled into objective gradations of red, green and blue light—smell is highly subjective, making it tough to standardize and calibrate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
"By squeezing -- silencing the noise -- you effectively use quantum mechanical interactions to 'squish' that meter stick, effectively creating finer gradations and allowing you to measure smaller things more precisely."
From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025
There are gradations of difference, and there are tipping points that you cross.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2025
Whatever portable plurality she found, she organized into neat lines, according to their size, shape, or gradations of color.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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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