modest
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While the impact on growth may be relatively modest if energy prices start to fall back soon, even in that scenario inflation rates are set to jump, according to the new projections.
In the most recent measured year, the Los Angeles region’s modest 38,500 net gain in immigration was nowhere near enough to balance a net loss of nearly 131,000 domestic migrants.
Trade between the two countries is "modest" but areas for growth include Belarus exporting pharmaceutical products and food to North Korea, Ryzhenkov said.
From Barron's
And a modest displacement tomorrow is different from widespread replacement today.
Mateus and his 16 siblings—all children of one mother, Rita, who at 90 still lives on her own—grew up on a modest farm where Route 60 now stands.
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