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Recent Examples of margin
Noun
The survey was conducted Jan. 7-9 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.2 percentage points, so results could be about 3 points lower or higher. Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025 But the margin for error is thin early in the second half of the season. Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
Crypto financial products range from stocks and mutual funds to margin loans and bank deposits. Jay Clayton, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 This isn’t the first time Son has linked IPO mandates to margin loans. Ruth David, Bloomberg.com, 16 Feb. 2022 See all Example Sentences for margin 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for margin
Noun
  • During Vrabel’s early days in Tennessee, players would walk into team meetings on edge.
    Chad Graff, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The job market is always shifting, but staying adaptable gives you the edge.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The move will trigger all federal agency maps, contracts and other documents to use the new name when referring to the Gulf, which borders roughly 1,700 miles of coast in each of the United States and Mexico.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Some lake-effect snow is possible in parts of New York State bordering the Great Lakes.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Like many public-housing projects, the original Sumner Houses, built in the late 1950s, withdraw from the street, lurking behind a perimeter of pointless lawn.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Police blocked roads around the home to establish a perimeter and the Meridian Police Department’s Special Tactics Group team helped take the three suspects into custody.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Repeat and Rebuild During each edging session, practice pausing and resuming multiple times.
    Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Those still working on their edging skills can trust this ski to hold on hard snow, and those ready to dip a toe off-piste will be encouraged by the Santa Ana 87’s mix of stability in variable conditions and agility in mixed terrain.
    Jenny Wiegand, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Fox, who is known for always pushing boundaries with her sartorial sense of style, previously talked with WWD about her relationship with fashion.
    Renan Botelho, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
  • With its focus on pushing boundaries and meeting evolving needs, LiTime remains a beacon of progress in creating a sustainable, energy-independent future for all.
    Lauren Carpenter, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These methods include measuring waist circumference, determining the waist-to-hip ratio or using special equipment, such as a DEXA scan, which measures bone density, to figure out body fat percentage.
    Faye Chiu, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Adiposity can be determined by measuring a person’s waist circumference or taking body scans to measure fat mass, according to the researchers.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Margin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/margin. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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