ninth grade

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ninth grade (plural ninth grades)

  1. (US, education) The period in school that comes after eighth grade and before tenth grade.
    • 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 8 June 2019:
      Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary.

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