How to Use degree of freedom in a Sentence

degree of freedom

noun phrase
  • This President simply cannot tolerate the degree of freedom and independence that art and artists require.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
  • To amass this staggering degree of freedom to maneuver, Putin and his cronies exploited a number of weaknesses in the British system.
    Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 2020-06-09
  • But journalists from outside news organizations were usually granted a degree of freedom.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2023-04-06
  • By introducing a widely accepted rating system, the industry increased the degree of freedom for creators, especially those designing games rated 18+.
    François Candelon, Fortune, 2023-05-05
  • Five general objectives for the funding The federal rules don’t allow states the degree of freedom that hospitals may have hoped for, but the department worked to include rural providers’ ideas about what the application should include, Williams said.
    Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
  • During an on-stage demonstration at this year’s CES convention in Las Vegas, Boston Dynamics showed off the agility of its humanoid Atlas robot — albeit with an unnerving degree of freedom of movement that dispels the illusion of a human entity.
    Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 7 Jan. 2026

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