modestly

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For the eighth consecutive month, inflation outpaced national home price appreciation, with CPI running 1.5 percentage points above the 0.9% annual gain-leaving real home values modestly lower year over year, the survey said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The daughter of a traveling salesman, Flores grew up modestly in the cinder block hills of Catia, a hardscrabble district of western Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Because the market has moved modestly lower in the past couple of months as earnings have continued to grow, the multiple today is just 20 times.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

In contrast, real median weekly earnings have risen only modestly during the same period.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

New Guinea’s equatorial climate varies only modestly from season to season and year to year, but Australia’s climate is highly seasonal and varies from year to year far more than that of any other continent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond