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degree

[dih-gree] / dɪˈgri /




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Young people are being urged to choose their university degree subjects carefully, after new research reveals how it can impact your career earnings.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

One of Wall Street’s most foundational modern beliefs is that the stock market is a cold, calculating machine that assigns values to individual securities with a high degree of precision.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

Author Janice Hadlow had a degree in history and had worked for the BBC consulting on and producing historical projects.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

“I promised early on: roof over everyone’s head, an insurance policy in every pocket and a college degree paid for,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

From the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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