first degree

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The project follows more than 5,000 healthy first degree relatives of people with Crohn's disease.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026

"We are praying they survive, and that the highest charge will not have to be murder in the first degree," US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said on Thursday.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

According to CNN, "a charge of murder in the first degree is rare because it requires special elements related to the crime to be charged."

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

“Falsification of business records in the first degree — it sounds so bad,” Mr. Trump said.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

There are a number of things that are forbidden in Yellowstone Park, but the worst one a man can do, short of first degree murder, is to "soap" a geyser.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)