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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alarming degree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level of something that is concerning or troubling.
Example: "The rise in pollution levels has reached an alarming degree, prompting immediate action from the authorities."
Alternatives: "worrying extent" or "concerning level".
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To an alarming degree, they are succeeding.
But that's what I was doing to an alarming degree.
But perspiration has trumped inspiration to an alarming degree.
Wendy was beloved to an almost alarming degree.
In every ocean, rapacious trawlers, purse seiners and longliners are overfishing to an alarming degree.
Nicholas Hytner's lively, often disgracefully enjoyable production conspires in this purpose to an alarming degree.
I can see the weaknesses in everything I've ever done, sometimes to an almost alarming degree".
To an alarming degree, the credit crisis had played out as his academic work predicted.
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It is wearying that America, a country that broke away from aristocratic England in a burst of rugged individualism, has spawned so many of its own royal political families, dynasties that feel entitled to inhabit the White House, generation after generation, letting their family competitions and tensions shape policy and history to an alarming degree.
All of them, except for the few large supply ships, were pitching and rolling to an alarming degree.
No gust of bluffness, however, can disguise the fact that his films are peopled, to an alarming degree, by families that don't add up, and by couples who click together and then come apart like toys.
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