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degrees

NOUN
cardinal points
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It examines, among other things, the extent to which a company opens jobs to workers without bachelor’s degrees and the degree to which skills-based hiring is an intentional strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

In Miami, for example, where seven World Cup games will be played, humidity will make an air temperature of 90 degrees “feel like” 109 degrees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Temperatures had just hit 32.7 degrees, a potential problem for those with respiratory conditions, for elderly folk and - we feared - for Scottish footballers and for those sweaty foot soldiers following them.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

To reach the crab, the animal had to turn 90 degrees and move around a corner.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Well, by definition, i2 = –1—a point whose angle is 180 degrees from the x-axis; the angle has doubled.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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