diminishing returns

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How much can a film criticize big tech’s spell over children when the long-running “Toy Story” franchise is similarly designed to lure its audience into a stupor, and for increasingly diminishing returns.

From Salon

Improving a car’s average has diminishing returns.

From The Wall Street Journal

Youth unemployment in China remains elevated, and young people frequently report that the cost of education and the intensity of competition deliver diminishing returns.

From MarketWatch

“Over-reliance on promotion delivers diminishing returns and erodes brand equity, and that is what has happened here,” Chief Executive Officer Daniel Heaf, a former Nike executive who joined the company in May, said on a call with investors.

From The Wall Street Journal

“However, overreliance on promotion delivers diminishing returns and erodes brand equity, and that is what has happened here,” Heaf said, according to a FactSet transcript of the post-earnings call with analysts.

From MarketWatch