Today's NYT Strands theme is 'To a degree.'The spangram for today has 10 letters and touches the left side at the 8th row and the right side at the 1st row.The answers for game #439 are GOWN, PHOTO, SPEECH, DIPLOMA, TASSEL, PROCESSION with the spangram being GRADUATION.Strands is a word game by NYT following Wordle and Connections, playable on desktop or mobile through the NYT Games site.