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marginal

adjective as in borderline; slight

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A research paper published in July 2025 by the British Psychological Society found that aiming for excessively high goals often leads to long working hours, with only marginal gains in performance.

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When traditional politics renders you marginal, controversial ideas start looking like the only arenas where your voice might matter.

“The marginal buyer” may be “buying the story” about AI without doing the valuation work around company cash flows, he cautioned.

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Once the RMD is made annually, it is taxed at the marginal rate.

Ford then scampered under the posts in the final minute of England's powerplay, only for the score to be wiped off for a marginal offside by Roebuck.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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