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Recent Examples on the Web But, especially in a year when touring wasn’t a viable income stream, collaborative hits also seemed like savvier business strategies in the streaming era of diminishing returns. — New York Times, "One Big Pop Star + One Big Pop Star = an Easier Path to No. 1," 22 Dec. 2020 Any potential for diminishing returns, however, doesn’t appear to have slowed the outpouring of donations to the GOP effort. — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, "GOP holds big money advantage in Georgia Senate runoff races," 9 Dec. 2020 The 2014 second-rounder will turn 30 in December and is showing diminishing returns as a pending free agent. — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, "Adam Thielen, Ryan Kerrigan included in Arizona Cardinals' NFL trade deadline speculation," 3 Nov. 2020 Herman is now 30-18 overall and 21-13 in league play since his debut in 2017 with increasingly diminishing returns since a 10-4 finish in 2018, which was viewed in some corners as the beginning of the program's return to national prominence. — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, "College football winners and losers from Week 13: Michigan, Notre Dame and Texas," 28 Nov. 2020 These efforts were not so much a failure as a familiar Trumpian plan executed with diminishing returns. — David Roth, The New Republic, "The Littlest Prince," 17 Nov. 2020 The 2014 second-rounder will turn 30 in December and is showing diminishing returns as a pending free agent. — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, "Adam Thielen, Ryan Kerrigan included in Arizona Cardinals' NFL trade deadline speculation," 3 Nov. 2020 The network has faced diminishing returns from its live musicals, which started with a huge audience for The Sound of Music in 2013. — Hilary Lewis, Billboard, "Matthew Morrison to Star in 'Grinch' Musical on NBC," 10 Nov. 2020 Although Democratic candidates for the council managed to bring in $256,158 to Republicans' $48,936, Cann said campaign spending tends to have diminishing returns over time. — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, "Salt Lake County election results show the limits of campaign spending," 4 Nov. 2020

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