How to Use to a degree in a Sentence

to a degree

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  • Yet that change also opened the door to a degree of gatekeeping among some F1 fans.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • These celebrities have proven that a traditional route to a degree isn’t for everyone, and that’s quite all right.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
  • According to a title card at the end of the movie, almost everything that happens in the film is true, to a degree.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Hocevar talked to me a lot last week about the state of the sport, and even compared it, to a degree, to WWE.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The rise in Ebola deaths as the outbreak has grown has moderated that view to a degree, Tedros noted.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Yes, this film is certainly a meditation of mortality to a degree.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026
  • She was held up as the pop cultural equivalent of a saint to a degree that sometimes obscured and distorted her creative drive and business acumen.
    — Jewly Hight, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Stardom arrived to a degree Beck and Leigh never could have anticipated.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Stefanski is a two-time coach of the year winner, is widely respected around the league and is detail-oriented to a degree that appeals to Ryan.
    — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 16 July 2026
  • So patience, but also only to a degree, with this rendition of the Heat arguably more in win-now mode than recent iterations of the roster.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
  • There’s been a raft of concern over the past year about whether higher education needs to make smaller promises, focus more intensely on the economic payoff to a degree.
    — Rajiv Vinnakota, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • What's working Baltimore has unleashed Zay Flowers this season to a degree not seen previously.
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The other four QBs peaked inside the top 10 last season, so they’ve all been slighted to a degree with the initial rankings of 2026.
    — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • That plan was abandoned because of injuries, yes, but also, to a degree, because Green couldn’t be trusted to be the linchpin of the defensive secondary in complicated man-match zone tactics.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
  • No system is perfect, and Connecticut’s largest city of Bridgeport has a long and checkered history of campaigns urging the use of absentee ballots to a degree not seen elsewhere.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
  • Hawkeye tussles with the Russian mafioso trying to drive residents out of his building, plus meets – and, to a degree, passes the bow-and-arrow to – young heroine Kate Bishop.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • Borges may not be able to see the scenery, but delights in every scrap of local color, to a degree that the American — tasked with describing everything to his elder, in suitably lyrical terms — finds quite wearisome.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
  • And Reid, the fourth-winningest coach in NFL history, was burning to get after it to a degree that belies his understated public persona.
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
  • People have always looked for errant glimmers of the dead in the world around them, but now the past runs parallel to — imprints upon, and circles around — the present to a degree that can severely confuse the relationship between the two.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Watergate, Vietnam, and stagflation sapped American confidence to a degree not seen since the Great Depression.
    — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Even sequels and prequels — say, those in the Star Wars canon — ideally aspire to a degree of self-sufficiency in which the audience can discern the story and, properly bewitched, can proceed to seek out the other movies.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But many professionals already experience this, psychologically, to a degree.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Play Video Japan and the US Treasury Department are now working together to a degree unseen in decades to shore up the currency, raising the stakes for anyone betting against it.
    — Mia Glass, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • In the post–Cold War era, the United States has perfected the art of airpower—winning control of the skies so that enemy armies, navies, and territory can be bombed at will—to a degree that no country or even alliance of countries has matched.
    — Justin Bronk, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026

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