diminishing returns
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Some of the ways that Tresnjak ups the ante on that daring have diminishing returns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Attempts to simply talk up the yen were running up against the law of diminishing returns.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The diminishing returns of instant gratification might explain why catalogs are nearly always, according to trade publications and business journals, on the verge of a renaissance.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Shared irritation helps, but with diminishing returns: A delayed ferry creates conversation; a broken ferry creates rage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
How far the operation of the law of diminishing returns will allow this tendency to proceed we cannot here discuss.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
