moderate
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There are no positive technical catalysts on the chart, but downside momentum is starting to moderate.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
He can probably walk about 45 minutes at a steady, moderate pace.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
He was broadly repeating what the country's former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, a moderate, had written a few days earlier in an article in the US publication Foreign Affairs.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Using extensive modeling, Walton and his co-authors found that both phosphorus and nitrogen remain in the mantle in large enough amounts only within a very narrow range of moderate oxygen conditions.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Instead of producing beams with high energies but a low current like the cyclotron’s—that is, protons that were speedy but few in number—his goal was to produce protons with moderate energies but in great profusion.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing moderate
Liberty, Equality, Vocabulary: The French Revolution
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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