decent
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Posting on X, the Labour MP described him as "an outstanding talent and someone who came across as a thoroughly decent and lovely".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
“The market has now priced in decent geopolitical risk.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
This year has been decent for film as a whole, but fantastic for documentaries, which have surpassed 2026’s mainstream narrative films in many ways.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Now we had to tackle one of the great conundrums of New York in 2026: Where to get a decent late-night meal?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
He was just a decent lizard who was Zeke’s dad and now he was gone and Zeke wished more than anything that he wasn’t.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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