degree
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Last week former President Barack Obama was awarded an honorary degree from Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“A lot of us felt that we’re a public school — if a student comes to Michigan, they want to do a computer-science degree, we should be able to teach them,” Prakash explained.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Half of full deliveries from pace bowlers in the final 10 overs have swung more than one degree since the rule change - a jump from 35% compared to the 18 months prior.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
What you’re talking about is a Wolverine,'” a reference to the mascot for the University of Michigan, where the Democrat got his undergraduate degree.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Chandra can detect enormous clouds of gas heated to millions of degrees by powerful winds from massive stars, material expelled by supermassive black holes, and debris from stellar explosions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Israel’s Arab citizens are a patchwork of sometimes overlapping identities, with varying degrees of integration into Israel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Computer-science professors and department chairs maintain that computer-science degrees are still valuable and that the major will remain attractive to students.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
It was started by a San Fernando Valley man who received a $2,115 electric bill for his 2,500-square-foot home that he said he kept at 74 degrees between the months of August and September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
“That’s bad enough. But if it hits two degrees, climate disasters like what you heard about today will be happening to all of us, all the time.”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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