A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

NTH

Sun, 18 Jan '26
High degree
Sun, 11 Jan '26
Unspecified degree
Sun, 31 Aug '25
Degree in math?
Fri, 8 Aug '25
High degree
Sat, 26 Jul '25
Unspecified term in a sequence
Sun, 13 Jul '25
___ degree
Sat, 15 Mar '25
Degree of uncertainty?
Sun, 8 Dec '24
Utmost degree
Fri, 6 Dec '24
___ prime (focus of a computational challenge in math)
Sun, 6 Oct '24
___ degree
Sun, 15 Sep '24
High degree
Sat, 31 Aug '24
Certain power
Fri, 10 May '24
High degree
Thu, 14 Mar '24
Last in a series
Thu, 15 Feb '24
Degree in math?
Thu, 8 Feb '24
Hypothetical degree
Wed, 10 Jan '24
Utmost
Fri, 15 Dec '23
General term in a series
Fri, 8 Dec '23
Highest degree attainable?
Thu, 9 Nov '23
Unspecified ordinal
Sun, 6 Aug '23
Ultimate degree
Wed, 28 Jun '23
To the ___ power
Wed, 26 Apr '23
To the ___ degree
Thu, 20 Apr '23
Last in a series
Sat, 25 Feb '23
Last in a long line
Wed, 22 Feb '23
Utmost
Tue, 21 Feb '23
Math degree?
Thu, 26 Jan '23
Kind of power in math
Sun, 15 Jan '23
Degree in mathematics?
Fri, 2 Dec '22
Last in a series
Sun, 23 Oct '22
To
Thu, 16 Jun '22
___ degree
Sun, 29 May '22
Utmost
Fri, 20 May '22
___-term test for divergence (calculus concept)
Sun, 8 May '22
To the ___ power
Wed, 4 May '22
Undefined ordinal
Mon, 4 Apr '22
To the ___ degree
Wed, 16 Mar '22
Imaginary ordinal
Thu, 3 Mar '22
Advanced degree?
Thu, 10 Feb '22
Unspecified ordinal
Fri, 5 Nov '21
___ power
Sun, 31 Oct '21
Maximum degree
Sat, 9 Oct '21
Advanced degree
Sun, 12 Sep '21
High degree
Thu, 26 Aug '21
Indefinite ordinal
Sun, 15 Aug '21
Advanced math degree?
Fri, 18 Jun '21
High degree
Sat, 8 May '21
Like the last in a line
Sat, 20 Mar '21
Higher power?
Tue, 2 Mar '21
Last in a series
Tue, 23 Feb '21
Last in a mathematical series
Tue, 2 Feb '21
To the ___ degree