marginal
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The letter says that "successive governments' adjustments to repayment thresholds – together with high interest and marginal tax rates – are placing an unsustainable burden on the next generation of workers".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
His involvement in the federal conspiracy case, as he tells it, was marginal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Suppose a household with two kids made around $200,000 with their marginal income-tax rate at 22%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Varathan says marginal yen bears should be braced for intervention to extract a price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
After subsisting for three months on an exceedingly marginal diet, McCandless had run up a sizable caloric deficit.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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