modest

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Yet participation rates are generally modest, says Paul Fronstin, director of health benefits research at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Even relatively modest fields tend to weaken superconductivity, while stronger ones usually eliminate it entirely once a critical limit is reached.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies saw modest declines early Thursday as investors monitored a fragile U.S.-Iran truce.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Higher oil prices may only give energy earnings a modest boost in the quarter, given they are only up by 2% annually on a quarterly average basis.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Some hang limp from laundry lines as thin and worn as thread; others are nailed clumsily to the doors of modest mud-brick homes not so unlike my own.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray