moderate
Example Sentences
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He can probably walk about 45 minutes at a steady, moderate pace.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 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 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
He expects inflation-adjusted consumer spending to post a moderate gain of around 2% this year.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Without money or connections, moderate tasks consumed entire days.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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