decent-sized
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Author Kent Smetters called it a “silver bullet” for low-income workers “to have a decent-sized nest egg without actually having to save more than what they already do.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
The house’s footprint doesn’t take up the absolute maximum space—there’s still a decent-sized backyard—and that’s by design, DeHart said.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2025
“There’s now a decent-sized literature on how far you can go in planting memories,” Loftus said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
"Even the aftershocks were as large in magnitude as a decent-sized earthquake," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023
Y\ hat with timber and cattle, Marshall had gotten to be a pretty fair-sized place by then and it had a decent-sized rail yard.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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