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degree

[dih-gree] / dɪˈgri /




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State-owned media had earlier reported 120 people were wounded, without clarifying the degree of injury.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Back then, he worked his way through college and ultimately earned a J.D. degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

While she studied for an associate degree for business administration—a fallback plan, she says—Mitchell balanced working 25 hours a week with one day of flying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Transportation analysts believe Raman, who has a graduate degree in urban planning from MIT, will be more aggressive in addressing transit issues than Bass, whose background was in healthcare and community organizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Her old college, Hillsdale, wanted to award her an honorary degree.

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

A Taylor Swift fan for 20 years, Angela wanted to create a podcast with her uncle, who holds degrees in English, history, classics and literary history.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

A camera operator built a custom housing that kept his hands warm at –40 degrees Celsius while he maintained enough dexterity to fly a drone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The results revealed temperatures falling to approximately 2,200 Kelvin, more than 1,000 degrees below the temperature of the visible surface, or photosphere.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

His core, however, held, with white voters without college degrees and white evangelicals remaining firmly Republican.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

When it was 95 degrees outside, the machine kept the area around the president's bed at a comfortable 75 degrees.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow


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