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verb

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Recent Examples of margin
Noun
But the margin for error for playoff contention is razor thin, especially in a conference that won’t get the benefit of the doubt like the SEC or Big Ten. Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025 That has increased the margin for maneuver. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
Medicare Advantage enrollment directly influences UnitedHealth’s profitability—the mix and quality of plans that enrollees choose drives government bonuses and margin differences. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 As volume grows, so does margin leverage — which explains why their operating margins have expanded so violently. Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for margin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for margin
Noun
  • Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Audi — never one to truly push hard into the proper luxury coupe market, but always working around its edges — has bowed out of the two-door market entirely.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pyongyang has long been accused of conducting suspicious transfers of goods between ships in the East China Sea, which is bordered by China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Taiwan.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The nonanswers have left Mueller torn about whether to sell his acreage, which borders the nuclear site.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The percentage indicates how much of the fire perimeter has been surrounded by a control line.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The group then moved along a secure perimeter road between the jail and a building under construction, authorities said.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Depending on the thickness of the steel chosen, the edging can last from 20 to 25 years.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Fill empty spaces with more soil to ensure the edging is compact.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The board urges the alliance to request the necessary funding to support improved transportation within IPS boundaries and asks that all schools participate in a centralized system or forfeit a portion of their operations funding to support this centralized service.
    Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The original poster replied directly to this comment to clarify her boundaries.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The widest tree in Indiana, according to the registry, is a Silver Maple in Lawrence County with a circumference of 361 inches and a height of 103 feet.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers use three methods for assessing child malnutrition – either a child’s height and weight, their BMI, or a child’s mid-upper arm circumference, known as MUAC.
    Soph Warnes, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Margin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/margin. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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