How to Use graver in a Sentence
graver
noun
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The graver concern is the potential effect of any attack on a few key precincts in battleground states.
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David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
22 Oct. 2020
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Climate change poses an even graver threat to public safety.
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WSJ,
7 Jan. 2022
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Other, yet graver issues noted in the documents were raised by health experts.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
30 Nov. 2020
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In the end, however, an even graver omission may be the film’s failure to get inside the head of O’Neal, a man who ought to reside at the movie’s moral center but ends up being the void at its heart instead.
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Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner,
1 Apr. 2021
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An usher who had worked the show was subsequently diagnosed with the coronavirus, and as opening night approached, the news got graver.
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Washington Post,
4 Mar. 2021
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But Pyongyang has refined shorter-range technology that pose graver threats to neighbors in South Korea and Japan.
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Timothy W. Martin,
WSJ,
14 Jan. 2022
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But to the workers that these agencies are supposed to help, not getting the money one is legally entitled to represents a far graver threat than occasionally getting too much of it.
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Ava Kofman,
oregonlive,
31 Oct. 2020
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The consequences of these oversights become much graver and potentially life-threatening.
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Lewis Liu,
Forbes,
9 June 2022
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On that day, anxiety over the virus lingered but the graver peril and uncertainty around what would become of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal of troops felt comparatively distant.
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BostonGlobe.com,
21 Aug. 2021
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The president’s critics have a point, but the EU’s inability to act effectively on the international stage is a far graver concern—and much harder to remedy.
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Walter Russell Mead,
WSJ,
28 Sep. 2020
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Paperwork errors and self-checkout machines are both far graver threats to inventory management.
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Amanda Mull,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2021
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All Texans are harmed by Abbott's negligence, but certain communities are likely to face graver consequences.
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Lydia Wang,
refinery29.com,
3 Mar. 2021
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An even graver shortcoming is successful realpolitik relies on your opponent being rational.
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Marcus Mabry,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2022
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Those deeply involved in Hollywood’s economic relationship with China grew quiet too, worried not only about losing their business but also about graver consequences: being called in for questioning, getting thrown out of the country, disappearing.
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Erich Schwartzel,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2022
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In a speech last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland urged his critics to be patient, noting that federal conspiracy investigations typically start with the lesser allegations and work their way toward graver charges.
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Washington Post,
13 Jan. 2022
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