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high-grade

[hahy-greyd] / ˈhaɪˈgreɪd /


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This comes as the rest of the high-grade corporate bond market has held up better.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 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

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

KoBold probed deeper underground than others had looked and discovered a vast deposit of high-grade copper.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

But there’s not a very great deal of spruce that could be milled into high-grade paper pulp; and it’s rapidly getting worked out in most other countries.

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold

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

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 Jones, Raymond F.

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

"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

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.




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