1
: of superior grade or quality
high-grade bonds
2
a
: being near the upper or most favorable extreme of a specified range
b
: medically serious or life-threatening
a high-grade tumor
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Beyond the direct environmental gains, the project positions China to circumvent international carbon tariffs, such as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, by producing high-grade thin steel plates for the automotive and high-end manufacturing sectors with a near-zero carbon footprint.
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
The high-grade market typically has a deeper pool of investors and offers cheaper financing, and would be more easily able to absorb a large financing of this size.
—Natalie Harrison, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025
Large reserves of high-grade potash are more than a mile and a half underground in north-central Michigan.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Meta, for instance, recently sold $30 billion of bonds in the largest public high-grade corporate debt deal of the year and arranged a roughly $30 billion private financing package.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
The high-grade market typically has a deeper pool of investors and offers cheaper financing, and would be more easily able to absorb a large financing of this size.
—Natalie Harrison, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025
Large reserves of high-grade potash are more than a mile and a half underground in north-central Michigan.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Meta, for instance, recently sold $30 billion of bonds in the largest public high-grade corporate debt deal of the year and arranged a roughly $30 billion private financing package.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
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“High-grade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-grade. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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