How to Use rater in a Sentence

rater

noun
Definition of raternext
  • The raters will look at your response as a whole and will rate you based on that.
    — Kristen Moon, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The erstwhile second-rater was now high on the lists of great presidents.
    — Frank Gannon, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
  • One course rater for Golfweek magazine called the course the total package.
    — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The raters assessed each one’s looks on a scale from 1 (not at all cute/very unattractive) to 5 (very cute/very attractive).
    — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Michelin, the guidebook turned high-brow restaurant rater, just announced the 2018 stars for Great Britain and Ireland.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2017
  • And search quality raters have received new guidance on how to spot and report this content, too.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Each rater has its own way of doing that, so each arrives at a different conclusion.
    — Florian Berg, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Delinquent payments are reported to the credit raters, which can hurt credit scores.
    — Benjamin Powers, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Golfweek has released its rankings of the best private golf courses in each state, based on judging by its nationwide network of raters.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2023
  • In round two, the surviving captions were shuffled and paired off again, and so on until each rater had picked one winning caption per cartoon.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2011
  • Reliability means the extent to which two raters (or the same rater at two different times) assigns the same rating to the same subject.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2016
  • Shares had slumped; credit raters downgraded the company to junk; sales grew ever more sluggish.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2020
  • And even when other charity raters have tried to come up with better metrics, overhead has continued to get a lot of airtime.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 27 Nov. 2018
  • To become a rater requires three years of training, and each animal is rated by three separate raters.
    — Mary Squillace, Robb Report, 26 July 2021
  • And this year—even before removing the vendor requirement—Google brought on other quality raters at $12 and even $10 an hour.
    — Toni Allen, Fortune, 3 May 2024
  • All the major political race raters and CNN put this contest in the solid Democratic column.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 12 June 2018
  • The company will fund the entire $1.22 billion price with cash, and will add enough cash flow to produce a reduction in gross leverage according to credit rater Fitch.
    — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Google says its has instructed its human raters to prioritize news reports that display a high degree of skill, time and effort.
    — Marie C. Baca, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • One of the examples in the instructions, for instance, talks about evidence that a rater could use to determine the right dosages for a medication to treat high blood pressure, called Lisinopril.
    — Davey Alba, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
  • Further analysis showed that all six of those facial cues influenced raters' perception of a person's health.
    — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The surveys, Wikipedia, and additional raters are just going to make certain problems less visible.
    — Renee Diresta, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2018
  • But creativity assessments by third-party raters, who did not know who was under the influence, were a buzzkill.
    — Richard Sima, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Some comments were seen by many more than 10 annotators (up to thousands), due to sampling and strategies used to enforce rater accuracy.
    — James Thewlis, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Earlier this year the big three credit raters cut Illinois’s rating to just above junk and warned the state would lose its investment grade if politicians didn’t pass a budget reducing its $15 billion backlog of bills.
    — WSJ, 5 July 2017
  • Our raters were in general agreement about which writers demonstrated receptiveness and which did not.
    — Mike Yeomans, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The company, which has piled on debt over the past decade and now has liabilities of more than $1 billion, missed a debt payment on December 31, putting it in default, according to both Moody's and credit rater Standard & Poor's.
    — CBS News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Specifically, the two Dutch raters said those who consumed alcohol had better pronunciation than the non-drinkers.
    — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The credit rater said the growing debt problems of some cities and provinces would force China’s central government to provide financial support when economic growth is slowing.
    — Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Quality raters can't change how search results are ranked but feedback from these contractors is used by engineers and machine learning systems to improve Google search results.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • China, whose sovereign rating from the world’s largest credit raters is three or four notches below that of the U.S., is generally seen as having very little default risk, thanks to its large stash of foreign reserves and trade surplus.
    — Manju Dalal, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018

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