marginally

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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

That’s only marginally higher than the average over the past five years, which is 26%.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

The desert conditions make the extreme heat marginally more survivable -- at low humidity, sweat evaporates more quickly off the skin, cooling the body.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

Mantel disagrees, saying Inside Safe and other homeless housing efforts are marginally effective and only “tinkering around the edges of the problem.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

He tried to calm his pulse and was only marginally successful.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon