marginal

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The private Chinese security players “have evolved from marginal actors into an important instrument of Beijing’s overseas risk-management architecture,” said Alessandro Arduino, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London defense think-tank.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

“We’re getting into a much tougher stretch where the marginal reduction inflation that was coming from shelter is slowing,” Sharif says.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Because people like to say things like, “If I became a right-wing influencer I’d get so rich,” and while there is some truth to that, there is this underbelly of people with really marginal influence.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

A sports business blogger named Joe Pompliano appealed for someone to “please explain marginal tax rates to Kelsey Plum,” and asserted that the one extra dollar would cost her not $13,000, but 13 cents.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The central players in the drama were not the marginal or peripheral figures, whose lives are more typical, but rather the political leaders at the center of the national story who wielded power.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis