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Recent Examples on the Web In recent years, this trend peaked, and there is growing realization that diminishing returns are quite present in research endeavors. — Richard Vedder, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021 The name surely carries plenty of equity, but like the movies, this HBO Max show yields diminishing returns. — Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021 Bad sequels produce diminishing returns, and very bad sequels send those returns plummeting down to the earth’s core. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2021 Blame it on a classic economic culprit, diminishing returns. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2021 This approach eventually led to diminishing returns. — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2021 But the Jets and their fans already know that there's a point of diminishing returns in that growth-adversity balance for a young quarterback. — Andy Vasquez, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021 Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the strategy is facing a problem of diminishing returns when dealing with the highly transmissible Delta variant. — Steve George, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021 The first is that, in general, there were diminishing returns to mutation over time: the bacteria made many of their most reproductively advantageous moves early on. — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021

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“Diminishing returns.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diminishing%20returns. Accessed 28 Jan. 2022.

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