to a degree
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“That is partly because the ocean temperatures are so warm off of Mexico,” he said, “that it’s helping the hurricane retain its structure and strength to a degree that wouldn’t normally be the case.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
El-Sayed has also tolerated controversy to a degree that Obama never did.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
He added that ill feeling towards Morecroft in the community had to a degree "spread to his partner" and affected his two children, who had experienced some isolation in the aftermath of the fraud.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Today’s Americans are fixated on food to a degree that would tenderize the minds of previous generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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