law of diminishing returns
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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
Since the time of the invention of printing successive quantities of literature have been given to the world, and under the law of diminishing returns literature has come to have for many very small returns.
From The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Wilson, Warren H. (Warren Hugh)
