marginal
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The Congressional Research Service estimated that shipboard, solid-state lasers can fire at a marginal cost between $1 and $10 per shot.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
Because in the modern NBA, the marginal is major.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026
Platforms with at least one million users would pay a top marginal rate of $6 a year per Illinois user, while smaller platforms would pay $1.20 for each user.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
This overstates the marginal value of transparency—not because it isn’t important, but because transparency is already widely practiced by EMs.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
It is a marginal comfort to know that the relatively new science of bioacoustics must deal with similar problems in the sounds made by other animals to each other.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing marginal
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