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The new version of the app offers only a marginal improvement in speed, hardly noticeable to most users.marginal = small
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Though she showed up on time, her performance made her a marginal employee who needed constant supervision.marginal = barely adequate
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Under the new policy, the marginal tax rate increases for individuals earning above $200,000 per year.marginal = at the edge or border
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She was feeling marginally better after a day of rest, though still too weak to return to school.marginally = a little
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After subsisting for three months on an exceedingly marginal diet, McCandless had run up a sizable caloric deficit. (source)marginal = barely adequate
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We were alone, apart from the glow on the horizon that we watched carefully each night, waiting for any signs of activity or change as we began to eke out a marginal existence. (source)
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It broadcast an exaggerated version of our complicated interior lives to the world, made us feel less alone in the madness of the era, less marginal. (source)marginal = on the edge of where everyone else was
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You'd only need to be facing the wrong way at the wrong time or stand marginally too close to another person. (source)marginally = a small amount
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Gogol is bored by the panelists, who keep referring to something called "marginality," as if it were some sort of medical condition.† (source)
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Stewardesses have, at best, marginal authority; Barb Wiggin knew when her authority had slipped. (source)marginal = limited
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I was said to be "in the country" and that was marginally all right, as long as I was prepared to stay there. (source)marginally = barely
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He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it's all so unsystematic. (source)marginal = of borderline quality
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He hated running, but the applause was intoxicating, and the prospect of more was just enough incentive to keep him marginally compliant. (source)marginally = barely adequately
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Amy returned from a dance one February night to find him lying on her bed, naked, on top of the covers, groggy from a very marginal pill overdose. (source)marginal = slight
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Just doing that made Pattie feel marginally better. (source)marginally = a little
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Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.† (source)
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Having studied the marginal notes written in Andrey's delicate script, the Count tapped the entry twice. (source)marginal = written in the margin
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Alex turns onto Marginal Way, and my teeth clatter together as we bump over the old pitted pavement, my stomach yo-yoing every time we jolt over another pothole. (source)Marginal = a proper noun
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