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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a lower grade" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a grade that is not as high as another, often in an academic context.
Example: "After reviewing my exam results, I realized that I received a lower grade than I expected."
Alternatives: "a lesser grade" or "a reduced grade".
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If buying your own diamond, choose a lower grade colour.
A late essay will receive a lower grade.
"We would give them a lower grade if we had one," Ms. Minow said.
My daughter received a lower grade in maths SAT's than all her other results.
Even at Humboldt University, the few easterners kept on as professors are at a lower grade.
What surgery was done was usually carried out by a lower grade of medical worker.
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Then importers moved to undercut them, selling a lower-grade pasta shipped in from Dubai at $5 a box.
We could make a lower-grade version, as certain car manufacturers have done, by compromising and using synthetic products.
Poor children are crammed 35 to 40 to a lower-grade classroom, with scarce resources and few counselors and nurses.
The feldsher was once a lower-grade physician in the army or peasant communities, but feldshers are now regarded as paramedical workers.
Absaloka's output has been declining in part because it produces a lower-grade, higher-polluting coal.
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