modest
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The benefit is fairly modest, averaging about $9,000 per child annually, in a country where childcare costs can exceed $30,000 a year.
From Slate β Sep. 14, 2026
Benn's travelling support was far more modest, with only pockets of British fans visible among the 18,855 crowd at T-Mobile Arena.
From BBC β Sep. 13, 2026
In the 1920s, a modest mercury mine grew into a large open-pit operation, contaminating the watershed with the toxic metal.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 11, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily β Sep. 11, 2026
It provided home mortgages for hundreds of black families, people of dependable but modest means who could not have otherwise bought their own homes.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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