Grade
Grade noun - An individual part of a process, series, or ranking.
Usage example: just one grade removed from completion
Phase
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Puppy Love: When Cyd was in 4th grade, she went through a phase where she had a crush on Naldo.
Source: Series / Best Friends Whenever -
Things Get Real: The final phase of training, an operational readiness exercise, is interrupted by an emergency that requires the CRT trainees' support: A reconnaissance satellite powered by weapons-grade plutonium fell into the Libyan desert, and a team of U.S.
Source: Film / G. I. Jane -
The British warship HMS Furious also went through a rather impractical phase with a launching deck at the front and a battleship-grade gun at the back, before being eventually fully converted to a flush-deck aircraft carrier that would actually be useful for aircraft operations.
Source: The Battlestar
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