modest

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Researchers also observed modest but meaningful improvements in measures of healthy heart function among individuals who experienced rationing.

From Science Daily

Alarmed at the realness of their struggle, they toss their smallfolk a cash bump, a modest promotion, or maybe, if they’re really lucky, a nicer place to urinate.

From Salon

Even modest savings between now and then could materially improve your situation.

From MarketWatch

Now the 60-year-old, who makes a modest living selling dried seafood, is determined to return to his birthplace, having already missed the deaths of his parents and first wife in Bangladesh.

From Barron's

Aged between 28 and 69, the group included democratically elected lawmakers and district councillors, as well as unionists, academics and others ranging from modest reformists to radical localists.

From Barron's