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degree

[dih-gree] / dɪˈgri /




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“You can only be one degree of separation from how you’re living your life,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Simon Broucke didn’t expect to use his mathematics degree for his music assistant job at “Masquerade,” the new interactive revival of “The Phantom of the Opera” in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Together, these approaches provide a toolkit for fine-tuning the behavior of DNA machines with a high degree of accuracy.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

She graduated with a master's degree in French and Spanish last year.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Adding a G sharp does raise the fourth degree of the scale by one half step, just as predicted in step 2.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones