modest

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In central North Dakota, the Beulah Convention and Visitors Bureau is housed in a modest suburban office complex and promotes the area.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

At the same time, market-based gauges of investors’ long-term inflation expectations point only to a modest pickup in long-term price pressures.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

High-fat diets had little impact on the infection, and carbohydrate-heavy diets offered only modest benefits.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Stocks were set for modest early gains following a report from Axios that suggests Iran is working through mediators, including Pakistan, to negotiate a 45-day cease-fire.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

I knew that to Grigori, what had resembled a blight had probably been a modest building from the outside, so as to avoid making a target of itself.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros