degrees

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Underemployment among recent grads—which measures people holding jobs that don’t make use of their skills or degrees or don’t offer full employment—also edged down consistently over the past four months to 41.5% in March.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

On Mother’s Day, there’s about a 50% chance of 90-degree temperatures in downtown L.A., and 100 degrees in the neighboring valleys.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

The researchers examined 16 different sites along the British coast which were affected to varying degrees by eutrophication - the enrichment of water by nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Further investigation showed that these X-rays came from extremely hot plasma reaching temperatures of about 150 million degrees, far hotter and brighter than expected for a star like this.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

In the centigrade scale, zero degrees is the freezing point of water.

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