modest

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The transaction is slated to be funded with cash on hand, while Neurocrine “plans to optimize its capital structure by taking on a modest amount of pre-payable debt,” it said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival became a world-famous event, it started as a much more modest music festival in Southern California’s desert in 1999.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

From the dining room table of her modest apartment, she owned and operated Beauty and the Beast Entertainment.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

The frugality in “Hag” is apparent from its modest start.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

They were a modest, middle-class family, in many ways not at all unlike my own.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama