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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gradate .
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Examples
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I challenge today's gradates to become good leaders.
The Valuable Inconvenience of Leadership: A Message for the Class of 2009 2009
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In each of these two systems the sky color gradates in value, hue, and chroma.
Archive 2008-04-01 James Gurney 2008
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The background can be designed so that it gradates up to a bright halo behind that element, while the other parts of the silhouette can be left a bit closer in value.
Silhouette, Part 2 James Gurney 2008
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These two systems interact with each other so that that every patch of sky gradates in two different directions at once.
Archive 2008-04-01 James Gurney 2008
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The cast shadow gradates in tone, getting lighter as it catches more sky fill and bounced light.
Archive 2008-01-01 James Gurney 2008
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Beginning at the centre of the top with a strongly accented note of contrast, the dark tone of the mass of trees gradates into the ground and on past the lower right-hand corner across the front of the picture, until, when nearing the lower left-hand corner, it reverses the process and from dark to light begins gradating light to dark, ending somewhat sharply against the sky in the rock form to the left.
The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed
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You will soon see how prettily it gradates itself as it dries; when dry, you can reinforce it with delicate stippling when you want it darker.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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AAR also partners with Tulsa's Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology, which provides advanced training and gradates bona fide airplane mechanics.
News 2011
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But AAR says that only prepares those gradates to be trained.
News 2011
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I know (most all like me college gradates over 40) do not trust the police.
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