How to Use rater in a Sentence

rater

noun
  • The raters will look at your response as a whole and will rate you based on that.
    — Kristen Moon, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Overall this box was our top pick for taste, with one rater giving it a 6 out of 5 stars.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Each rater has its own way of doing that, so each arrives at a different conclusion.
    — Florian Berg, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • And search quality raters have received new guidance on how to spot and report this content, too.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Delinquent payments are reported to the credit raters, which can hurt credit scores.
    — Benjamin Powers, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • Shares had slumped; credit raters downgraded the company to junk; sales grew ever more sluggish.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2020
  • To become a rater requires three years of training, and each animal is rated by three separate raters.
    — Mary Squillace, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2021
  • To validate their system, the researchers also asked two human raters to answer the same question.
    — Bypakinam Amer, science.org, 19 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • In short order, the Philippines won its first-ever investment-grade rankings from all three top credit raters.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our raters were in general agreement about which writers demonstrated receptiveness and which did not.
    — Mike Yeomans, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • The rater tries to distill rich multi-dimensional data into a single number.
    — Lauren Cohen, umit G. Gurun, quoc Nguyen, Harvard Business Review, 10 July 2024
  • 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
  • That is a pretty wide margin that is robust to most polling errors and confirms the diagnosis from the fundamentals and expert race raters.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The surveys, Wikipedia, and additional raters are just going to make certain problems less visible.
    — Renee Diresta, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Applicants must live or work in Sunnyvale and be able to serve as raters on Thursday, July 18.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024
  • Each section is scored by a different rater, which helps reduce the exam's subjectivity or biases.
    — Kristen Moon, Forbes, 3 May 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
  • In addition, these raters knew which candidates had an ASD diagnosis.
    — Cindi May, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Specifically, the two Dutch raters said those who consumed alcohol had better pronunciation than the non-drinkers.
    — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Michelin, the guidebook turned high-brow restaurant rater, just announced the 2018 stars for Great Britain and Ireland.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The raters at one company are shaping a fundamentally different character than the raters at another.
    — Tamilla Triantoro, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026

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