moderate

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He was broadly repeating what the country's former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, a moderate, had written a few days earlier in an article in the US publication Foreign Affairs.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

It is often more comfortable to make moderate forecasts projecting that recent trends will continue, even if that risks the occasional big miss, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

He expects inflation-adjusted consumer spending to post a moderate gain of around 2% this year.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Using extensive modeling, Walton and his co-authors found that both phosphorus and nitrogen remain in the mantle in large enough amounts only within a very narrow range of moderate oxygen conditions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Yet even as they celebrated, many moderate whites, so recently in their corner, were cooling to the cause.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield