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degree

[dih-gree] / dɪˈgri /




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He lives in San Francisco, and graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in history.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Students who want to go "up the scale" will be allowed, Burke said, for example, if a student finishes a bachelor's degree and then wants to complete a masters.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Moreno was from Orange County and graduated from Chapman University with a degree in broadcast journalism and political science.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

But margins on sales are lower, and those manufacturers, to a degree, risk competing with themselves.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Attuned to each other to an almost spooky degree, they achieved things that others considered impossible.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Using this design, the researchers steered light by angles of up to 13 degrees in as little as 74 femtoseconds.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

The predator was not a cold-blooded creature, but a warm-blooded one with a body temperature probably around 97.3 degrees Fahrenheit, plus or minus 4.5 degrees.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Both are capable of streaming from a PC as well as playing games on-device, with varying degrees of success.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

He’s a policy-driven intellectual with degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics, long identified with the “soft left” of the British Labour Party.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

So when you’re evaluating whether she’s sincere in her belief or a lunatic, you should know she’s got more degrees, speaks more languages, and has seen more of the world than most people you know.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri




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