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exaggerates to the nth degree about everything she ever did
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Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady made N.F.L. history on Sunday for the nth time in his career.
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Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
While from the outside peering in, press office culture tries to control professional players’ outward profile to the nth degree.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
And the curation of those clothes has been pored over to the nth degree.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
Over time, this intention develops into a habit, or better yet, a wisdom ritual of nth order decision making, resulting in a compounding reduction of bad outcomes and increase of good ones.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
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Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
While from the outside peering in, press office culture tries to control professional players’ outward profile to the nth degree.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
And the curation of those clothes has been pored over to the nth degree.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
Over time, this intention develops into a habit, or better yet, a wisdom ritual of nth order decision making, resulting in a compounding reduction of bad outcomes and increase of good ones.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
See all Example Sentences for nth
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“Nth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nth. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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nth
adjective1
: numbered with an unspecified or indefinitely large ordinal number
for the nth time
2
: utmost sense 2, extreme
to the nth degree
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