marginal

Example Sentences

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The risk of an offshore tsunami in the Mediterranean has often been considered marginal, and this in itself could be misleading.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

“We’re getting into a much tougher stretch where the marginal reduction inflation that was coming from shelter is slowing,” Sharif says.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Because people like to say things like, “If I became a right-wing influencer I’d get so rich,” and while there is some truth to that, there is this underbelly of people with really marginal influence.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

As equity typically earns about 9% a year, that asset tax would constitute a marginal tax rate on the very richest of just 11% of their average annual gain.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

The central players in the drama were not the marginal or peripheral figures, whose lives are more typical, but rather the political leaders at the center of the national story who wielded power.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis