: any of various cutting or shaving tools used in graving or in hand metal-turning
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The stakes, already high, are ratcheted up significantly; arguably, Hunt and co. have never faced a graver scenario.—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 15 May 2025 For all the foreign interference, Fontes, a Democrat, sees a graver problem originating from within.—Barton Gellman, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024 Without a common reference frame, confusion can ensue—from small inconveniences to graver problems, such as mapping inconsistencies and navigation errors.—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024 The longer the crisis lasts, the graver the danger that militants with links to al Qaeda or ISIS—which hold sway on several other African battlefields—move in.—Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for graver
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