modest
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You have relatively modest retirement savings, which I hope are at least keeping pace with the S&P 500.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 30, 2026
From the street, it looked like a modest Craftsman, but inside it felt bigger.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 29, 2026
But for both leaders, this is a familiar outcome - a promise of more channels of communication, modest economic concessions and modest proposals to steady relations.
From BBC β Sep. 28, 2026
Rafael Gutierrez, a 42-year-old artist, is leading the project from his modest workshop in Lima's Carabayllo district.
From Barron's β Sep. 26, 2026
Coconut palms swayed in their wiry gentleness, flanking the row of modest fishermen’s houses facing the beach.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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