modest

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Before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival became a world-famous event, it started as a much more modest music festival in Southern California’s desert in 1999.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

From the dining room table of her modest apartment, she owned and operated Beauty and the Beast Entertainment.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Lawrence, who worked with him on his adaptation of Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey,” describes him as surprisingly modest, entirely unlike his swaggering creations.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

The unemployment rate has remained modest, even as job growth has stalled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

His pride in his work spilled over into our home, where he was clearly the king of the castle, even if the castle was just a modest apartment.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson