moderately

Example Sentences

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The 23 hard-to-short stocks I listed in one of my December 2025 columns, for example, have since declined only moderately.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

“Regional manufacturing activity rose moderately from last month, posting its highest reading since July 2022,” Cortney Cowley, assistant vice president and Oklahoma City Branch executive, said in a statement on Thursday.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Valerie may be only moderately successful, but she isn’t a hack.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

If economic activity slows further in the coming months, the Chinese government could boost investment moderately to mitigate the pressure on the economy, said Zhiwei Zhang, chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

In any case, it was no more than moderately busy on a good, hot, blue-skied, gorgeously promising morning in late July.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson