modest
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On Friday, stocks fluctuated between modest gains and losses.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 18, 2026
So three mornings a week, I went to martial arts classes at a modest dojang in Van Nuys.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 18, 2026
Its eruptions are often relatively modest, but the volcano is also capable of producing much more hazardous activity.
From Science Daily β Sep. 18, 2026
Others were skeptical that even modest cooperation was likely.
From Barron's β Sep. 17, 2026
The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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