modest
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In Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.2% as luxuries made modest recoveries after selling heavily earlier in the week.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
His lines are lazy, woozy, all-forgiving reportage about the seasons’ slow parade, the meandering ongoingness of our world: arrival, decay and the modest glory in between.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
"Many early programmes failed, but newer antibodies have delivered modest yet real clinical benefit," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Overall, “we see this as a modest positive for long-term strategic optionality, with no near-term impact on estimates absent a subsequent FDA decision that actually adds substances to an allowable compounding pathway,” BofA analysts wrote.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
My grandfather was a kind and gentle man who made a very modest living working at a printing press.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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