marginal
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration concluded that the marginal risks of open models don’t justify restrictions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Alternatively, withdrawing from retirement accounts would generally be taxed as ordinary income, potentially at higher marginal rates depending on your tax bracket.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
“This would mark only a marginal improvement from the recent string of hot PCE inflation prints and should keep the Fed firmly on hold in the near-term,” writes Stephen Juneau, U.S. economist at BofA Securities.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
And to be fair, Cronin has often used his tough love with great success, turning marginal players into good ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it’s all so unsystematic.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Vocabulary lists containing marginal
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