moderate
Example Sentences
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A 30-second ad depicts Mahan, a moderate Democrat, as a “fixer of problems” in a big city “just miles from the big game” and touts his record reducing homelessness, building housing and reducing crime.
From Los Angeles Times
For much of his adult life, he supported reform within Iran's political system and voted mostly for moderate US presidential candidates.
From BBC
Tom Malinowski, a relative moderate who previously served two terms in Congress, was the heavy favorite and led in the early and mail-in voting.
In that vein, he believes that “it is easier to produce large-scale deterioration than even moderate improvements.”
Because the ground is not getting time to dry out between systems, even moderate amounts of rainfall are causing further flooding and disruption.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
