marginal
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In doing so, they’ve also made their marginal advantage in each of these districts smaller.
From Salon • May 4, 2026
There may be marginal gains on the face, she explains, because the skin is naturally thinner there than other parts of the body.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
“It’s great to have, but it’s of marginal benefit. It’s only $3,750. Those taking advantage of that were going to save money somehow, somewhere, anyway,” Schneider said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
Warsh’s views on interest rates and the Fed’s balance sheet are “only of marginal importance in determining the course of actual policy,” wrote analysts at RBC Capital Markets in a client note last week.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Like most of its rivals, Mountain Madness was a fiscally marginal enterprise and had been since its inception: in 1995 Fischer took home only about $12,000.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing marginal
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