marginal
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This overstates the marginal value of transparency—not because it isn’t important, but because transparency is already widely practiced by EMs.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
Erdős asked if we could do much better than this, and for 80 years the mathematics community only achieved marginal improvements.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2026
Yet with inventories building, positioning net short and incremental supply rising, UBS sees “downside risk emerging if demand does not recover and marginal tons begin to exit.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026
A $250,000 traditional IRA inherited by two adult children is liquidated at their marginal brackets across a decade.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
We’d get back to our study of marginal utility another day.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
Vocabulary lists containing marginal
The Other Wes Moore
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