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

The number of places for Scottish students doing their first degree is capped in each university, due to constraints in Scottish government funding.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 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

Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah