marginally

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Meanwhile, real manufacturing and trade sales and industrial production recorded little change but contributed marginally to the month’s decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Limited progress has been made in the last 3½ years, with a marginally lower number of homeless people.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

When it comes to company decisions Musk will still hold more than 80% of the voting power after the share sale, only marginally less than he currently has.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The Global Burden of Disease, the world’s leading mortality database, finds that Europe’s standardized heat-death risk has changed only marginally since 1990.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

They were old cargo manifests, which sounded marginally more thrilling, from a time when the palace had been the royal residence and goods had come from every corner of the world.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor