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Example sentences for: gradations

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Being either homosexual or heterosexual, male or female, or fitting into any one of the myriad gradations between those extremes has nothing whatsoever to do with taste or values, and I did not imply that it does.
In the usual meanings of positives, comparatives, and superlatives of English adjectives the gradations are taken to mean “--,” “-er/more --,” and “-est/most --,” the latter being the adverbs normally used to distinguish the comparatives and superlatives of polysyllabic words.
After two 1-minute rinses in distilled water, the tissue sections were counterstained with hematoxilin, cleared and dehydrated by successive gradations through 70%, 95%, and 100% ethanol followed by a final passage in xylene.
It's like a restaurant critic who's forced to specialize in different gradations of bland.
But on the other hand, inflated grades do a super job of distinguishing among fine gradations of weakness.