law of diminishing returns
Example Sentences
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This well-known phenomenon is referred to as the "law of diminishing returns."
From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025
"My thought on going after knives themselves is that it is a law of diminishing returns," Mr Garratt added.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024
It is at this point, and perhaps even earlier, where "Heart of Stone" starts to suffer from the law of diminishing returns.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2023
Besides each other, though, the test yielded no other results of note, and the law of diminishing returns applied to the every-few-months email digest Dee and Becca got from 23andMe with new sets of matches.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023
"I wonder," hazarded Miss Wiggin thoughtfully, "if there isn't some sociological law about crimes, like the law of diminishing returns in physics?"
From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney
