marginally

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District officials have previously described such cost-cutting attempts as potentially meaningful, but only marginally helpful given that employee salaries and benefits make up the vast majority of the district’s nearly $19-billion budget.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

Second-from-bottom Burnley are marginally better off, but not by much.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

The modest rise in employment was marginally below the about 15,000 that economists had expected, though the employment rate had been expected to tick up 0.1 percentage point.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Instead, he gave a marginally more formal “update” about progress in Iran than he gives all day on social media or in quick press availabilities.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

The small, secure weight of tools along his belt, the smell of intermittent rain, and the crystalline brilliance of the clouds at dusk: these are the only times when Volkheimer feels marginally whole.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr