modest
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On Wednesday, they battered down doors and swept the modest, two-story structure beside the 215 Freeway with military precision.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026
However, I have a modest proposal: Medical providers should charge a late-arrival fee for patients who are late, as they often do for no-shows.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
Alfred Schipke, director of the East Asian Institute in Singapore, agrees that short-term economic impact "will likely be modest and concentrated in African countries that already have export capacity".
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
A documentary on TCM draws on the Japanese director’s diaries to offer an intimate portrait of a modest yet artistically monumental filmmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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