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to some degree

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  1. Also, to a certain degree;;. Somewhat, in a way, as in To some degree we'll have to compromise, or To an extent it's a matter of adjusting to the colder climate. The use of degree in these terms, all used in the same way, dates from the first half of the 1700s, and extent from the mid-1800s.

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To some degree, American and Israeli air superiority is a wasting asset.

From The Wall Street Journal

Regardless of what people thought, it has worked to some degree for him.

From BBC

“Brian was back to some degree,” Love says now.

From Los Angeles Times

Anthony never married, and she considered herself to some degree Stanton’s amanuensis, confiding to an intimate that she felt that her best work had been “making the way clear” for her friend.

From The Wall Street Journal

Jim Paulsen: I’m always worried to some degree.

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