to a greater or lesser degree/extent

phrase

: to some degree/extent

This new tax affects everyone to a greater or lesser degree/extent.

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This pattern, to a greater or lesser extent, has been the monthly norm for years. — Bruce Higgins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025

The Challenge Of Accurate Estimation All Scope 3 calculations involve some degree of estimation to a greater or lesser degree. — Hugo Kimber, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025

The matrix is a prison of the mind, and Paul is its prisoner; Houellebecq is not wrong to accept the premise that, to a greater or lesser degree, we are all hooked up to it. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024

Unlike past waves of automation, this is the first technology that can replicate (to a greater or lesser extent) how humans think and thus can automate higher-order tasks like knowledge work. — Peter Guagenti, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

Getting that account requires exposing your own details, to a greater or lesser extent. — Neil J. Rubenking, PCMAG, 8 Aug. 2024

Germans by and large wanted to focus on the gigantic task of rebuilding and reconstruction and to forget the Nazi past and the crimes in which, to a greater or lesser extent, the vast majority of them had been involved. — Richard J. Evans, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017

The choice affects the setting of the car’s electric power steering, engine responsiveness, electric power assist, and air-conditioning -compressor, managing them so as to save gas to a greater or lesser degree. — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2010