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Type Words
Synonyms borderline


marginal writing ability.
Type Words
Synonyms bare


a marginal victory.
Type Words
Synonyms fringy
Derivation margin, marginality


the marginal strip of beach.
Type Words


marginal industries.

Examples of marginal

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If Poor Devils suffers, it is from an excess of padding and marginal rumination.
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That means there won't just be a few token liberal Republicans in marginal jobs.
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Skilled players will usually respect these raises and fold their marginal hands.
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The original premise was to maintain marginal farmland as a refuge for wildlife.
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Excluding these items, the Group would have reported a marginal loss before tax.
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The 2% fees are considered income, so they're taxed up to the 35% marginal rate.
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In fact, the success rates of U.S. missile defense systems are marginal at best.
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Shorting currently productive, but hydrologically marginal cropland for example.
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This flies in the face of deminishing marginal returns from resource extraction.
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  • Fringy: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach"
  • Borderline: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability"
  • Bare(a): just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
  • Producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"
  • (marginally) in a marginal manner; "marginally interesting"
  • Marginal EP is the third album of the Belgian rock band Dead Man Ray. It was released in 2001. It is a compilation of random outtakes, bizarre cutups and b-sides of previous recording sessions.
  • The Marginals, also called the "Paddy Irish" gang, was a New York street gang during the early 1900s which, under stevedore Thomas F. "Tanner" Smith, succeeded the longtime Hudson Dusters from their territory of New York's Lower West Side.
  • Something that is marginal; Especially a constituency with a small winning margin; of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge; geographically adjacent; written in the margin of a book; at the lower extent of a standard; of land that is barely productive; of an electoral district (such ...
  • (Marginals) Same as frequencies - see above.