to a degree
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Both won critical acclaim and, to a degree, commercial success.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Yet the president is certainly entitled to a degree of latitude in decisively responding to active threats to the nation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
"What Tierney wanted to do was an incredibly faithful adaptation of this novel, wildly faithful - faithful to a degree I don't think anybody ever imagined," he says.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
And respondents were more willing to raise taxes than cut benefits, the Cato poll found — to a degree.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025
In his keynote speech, General Electric research chief W. D. Coolidge lauded Ernest’s “boldness and faith and persistence to a degree rarely matched.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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