marginal

Example Sentences

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Compared with their overall budgets, the amounts hospitals seek are "marginal", Sirven said.

From Barron's

Served in a highly concentrated, liquid form, the Olympics’ favorite broccoli juice is the latest supplement to promise marginal gains over long efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal

In this case, a VPN adds only marginal benefits for home use.

From Salon

Her fiction took characters who had traditionally been marginal presences—in her case, African-Americans—and made them protagonists.

From The Wall Street Journal

Unlike in Venice, where three Netflix-produced films entered the official competition, the giants of the streaming world are relatively marginal in Berlin.

From Barron's