How To Use Modicum In A Sentence
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Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
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It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
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The reoccupation of all territories previously evacuated by Israel in the West Bank further eroded any modicum of trust left.
Alon Ben-Meir: The Arab Peace initiative: Now or Never
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But if you do get a modicum of success, you have to give yourself a smile.
The Sun
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All it would take is a bit of gumption and a modicum of courage.
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In ea etiam in hyeme nusquam pluit, sed in 鎠tate: et tam modicum, quod vix potest aliquando puluerem et radices graminum madidare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Is quodam instrumento argenteo consueuit ossa defricare, siue linire, vt ex iis exeat modicum olei, velut parumper sudoris, quod tamen non apparet in colore sui tanquam olei seu Balsami, sed aliquantulum pluris magnitudinis.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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We live in a world where scientists are increasingly shouted down and whose observations are increasingly dismissed by those with barely a modicum of scientific knowledge; witness how mroe people listen to RUSH FRIGGIN LIMBAUGH about global warming than a qualified planetologist or climatologist.
Bones
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A little brevity, a modicum of content, and a lot less rant would be good.
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Again, the consumer must exercise some modicum of brainpower.
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However, that cannot be done without at least a modicum of civility!
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There's a modicum of spottiness and film grain at the very beginning of the first reel, but things clear up quite nicely thereafter.
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Ibi habetur in leui precio copia rerum omnium, et præcipuè victualium: vnum genus est ibi serpentum in abundantia quod manducant ad omne conuiuium, et nisi pro finali ferculo ministraretur de illis serpentibus, conuiuium quàm modicum diceretur.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Many of these men were drawn from among the ranks of principal and supernumerary soldiers serving in guard units of the Northern Metropolitan Area, a pool of men with a modicum of military training and ready access to the weapons of the day.
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There is such a thing as a modicum of decency and morals of public behaviour.
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Officials deserve a modicum of sympathy in increasingly indisciplined times, but some forfeit it through their mistakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Topping it all with fur, Dior has turned chinchilla and foxtail inside out and unlined with the aim of showing off their rough unfinished zigzag seams without a modicum of pretense.
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A modicum of celebrity means the staff can be highhanded, but you can deal with that.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a time that to ascend to the office of Governor, one would at least have a modicum of eduction and critical thinking ability.
McDonnell: Not mentioning slavery was 'a mistake'
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England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists
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The difference was that all those players were much younger and thus could do the tracking and defending required to maintain a modicum of balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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All you need is a few ideas on how to do this with a modicum of panache and flair.
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Seeing as Mr Moreton is a doctor, I would assume he has a modicum of intelligence.
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After a modicum of mood-building winds, tense looks, and rustly monster-noises, our guards are fire-tentacled to death.
Bad Medieval Movies: Outlander
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Commercial bottled water here varies quite a bit depending on how frequently the company changes its filters, but it's generally flat tasting and very low in minerals (RO essentially takes out everything, including the modicum of minerals needed for good flavor).
Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
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Personally, I feel cheated if an election campaign does not include a modicum of shameful brawling.
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Varangian, who proffered his modicum of decocted barley, which these barbarians prefer to the juice of the grape.
Count Robert of Paris
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Meanwhile, back at the old ranch house, a quiet weekend looms, devoted to rest and recuperation and a modicum of gentle fun.
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Is quodam instrumento argenteo consueuit ossa defricare, siue linire, vt ex iis exeat modicum olei, velut parumper sudoris, quod tamen non apparet in colore sui tanquam olei seu Balsami, sed aliquantulum pluris magnitudinis.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Manual wheelchair propulsion provides a modicum of exercise and most importantly, provides mobility for non - ambulatory individuals.
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The difference was that all those players were much younger and thus could do the tracking and defending required to maintain a modicum of balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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I may be somewhat easy, but I am not without a modicum of self respect. watch me as I choose to sleep with an uneducated redneck over you, simply on the grounds that he's too much of a gentleman to say such things in my general vicinity. that in itself makes the 30-minute drive a non-issue. your pool table and your parents 'money do nothing for me the way his shitty crack shack does. silly little fuckwit. speaking of fuckwits, isn't it funny how WRITING the word fuckwit is so much more funny than SAYING it? go on! say it! isn't it weird and retarded? ps: the funk is gone.
Dragonwench Diary Entry
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And yet he has a modicum of charm and a world of vulnerability beneath his gruff booze-addled exterior.
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With immense power should come at least a modicum of humility.
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The difference was that all those players were much younger and thus could do the tracking and defending required to maintain a modicum of balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's not even a modicum of truth in her statement.
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But I do have the benefit of a certain modicum of maturity and experience.
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In the book he shoots from the hip and rides roughshod over reputations, holding a modicum of his once monumental power and relishing it.
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Before you rush out, though, we must advise a modicum of caution.
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Given the importance of public opinion, let us counter misinformation with a modicum of information.
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So spurred on by necessity and a modicum of common sense let us look more closely at the distances usually recommended.
Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden
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Anyone with even a modicum of intelligence would have realized that!
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The third is the hygienic sciolist, who drinks on principle poor “Gladstone” and thin French wines, cheap and nasty; and the survivor is the man who enjoys a quantum suff. of humming Scotch and Burton ales, sherry, Madeira, and port, with a modicum of cognac.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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As in all things in medicine, medical diagnosis requires prudence, and more than a modicum of common sense.
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I know this may sound like a difficult challenge but if you apply yourself to the task you can get a modicum of enjoyment from the dross in your mailbox.
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They should win, given a modicum of luck.
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The first task of the leader of a political party in opposition is to preserve a modicum of party unity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seeing as Mr Moreton is a doctor, I would assume he has a modicum of intelligence.
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Off the pitch, they yearn for an owner with a bit of class and a modicum of good sense.
Times, Sunday Times
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This defeat very obviously hurt, with the backdoor of the qualifiers only a modest modicum of consolation.
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Instant, I was forsooth scared in my innermost only possess any other bitterness and haze, Even if modicum can makes myself incapable give melody music comeliness encounter.
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With a modicum of imagination and a dash of invention, a good story could be built from this one.
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Is a modicum of extra convenience worth it for the huge security risks a more connected world brings?
Times, Sunday Times
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It requires a modicum of discipline, of course, but so what?
Times, Sunday Times
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(suspectable), occasionally and alternatively used by husband when having writing to do in connection with equitable druids and friendly or other societies through periods of dire want with comparative plenty (thunderburst, ravishment, dissolution and providentiality) to a sofa allbeit of hoarsehaar with Amodicum cloth, hired payono, still playing off, used by the youngsters for czurnying out oldstrums, three bedrooms upastairs, of which one with fireplace (aspectable), with greenhouse in prospect (par-ticularly perspectable).
Finnegans Wake
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Domitium Afrum, cum apud centumviros diceret graviter et lentè (hoc enim illi actionis genus erat), audiit ex proximo immodicum insolitumque clamorem; admiratus reticuit; ubi silentium factum est, repetit quod abruperat; iterum clamor, iterum reticuit; et post silentium, cœpit idem tertio.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
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They should win, given a modicum of luck.
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There's not even a modicum of truth in her statement.
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However, if, as this week suggested, Vogts can keep his flights of fancy in check, he might be given the opportunity to prove that he has assembled a squad with a modicum of potential.
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It's worse than a urinal, in fact, because at least they are designed to afford a modicum of privacy and necessitate you standing close to the porcelain in order to avoid an aquacade of poisonous precipitation.
Cistern addict
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Something that would be highly unlikely to happen, at least with a modicum of due diligence by the pilot.
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Sub-divagate" would be more appropriate since by most definitions, a Diva must actually have a modicum of fame or talent.
HumidCity
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All it would take is a bit of gumption and a modicum of courage.
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The road up to Courchevel is a classic series of tight alpine switchbacks, though the patches of pine forest which will at least provide a modicum of shade.
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Reaching the sitting area, he grinned at Jake and flopped into another chair, chafing his hands to get a modicum of feeling back into them.
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Given the importance of public opinion, let us counter misinformation with a modicum of information.
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It could make an impressive chart but I'm content with a single sheet of typing paper, a few words and a modicum of connecting lines.
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As long as they get some exposure to written language, most learners will acquire at least a modicum of literacy.
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Thank god for those refuseniks and some modicum of level-headedness in this insanity.
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The answer to providing a modicum of security for interpreted applications has to this point been obfuscation - - making the code look different so it can be difficult to decompile and figure out.
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Her penetrating soprano lacked a modicum of sensuality for the final opera's antiheroine, but she suggested a hard-bitten gold-digger effectively.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it only requires a modicum of skill for the choice to be framed in this way.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an otherwise deathly dull contest, the spectacle of the siblings slogging it out for the top job has provided a modicum of entertainment.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were left with a grab bag of effects, only a modicum of which registered.
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The difference was that all those players were much younger and thus could do the tracking and defending required to maintain a modicum of balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus retaining a modicum of respect from you, my peer group.
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Suffice it to say, anyone with a modicum of computer knowledge will be very frustrated on my behalf, or so I hope.
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It's done in a spirit of fun, and relies on a modicum of good faith among the participants.
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Melich verò fecit duci illos tres fratres vltra vnum paruum brachium maris in quendam Burgum modicum ab illa ciuitate distantem: ad quem etiam ille in cuius iam domo fuerant hospitati associauit eos, vbi in domo cuiusdam idolatri recepti sunt.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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But please, if you're going to dispense with shame or modesty, at least display a modicum of intelligence.
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I rarely cook a cherry, though this year I made a compote by cooking the fruit, stone in, with a modicum of sugar until they bled deep red juice.
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Nobody with a modicum of intelligence is going to swallow the daily diet of puerile propaganda put out by the ruling party.
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Yet, in a world where the boundaries between film/video/DVD and real life are wearing thin almost to non-existence, with the ghastliest events filmed on mobile phones and then immediately beamed around the world, it may be that the time has come for film-makers to exercise at least a modicum of self-censorship, now that institutional censorship of films has vanished pretty well to the point of total evaporation.
Guns
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However, a modicum of pause and analysis (as in articulating to oneself the character) of wine, food and the interaction of the two can give any individual a compass and confidence to navigate and enrich their culinary experience.
The "Perfect Thanksgiving Wine" Myth
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Would you rather put your money, or increase your bet on a shooter who throws at random, or one with at least a modicum of control?
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Mr. Gummage immediately supplied her with two bristle brushes, and sundry little shallow earthen cups, each containing a modicum of some sort of body color, massicot, flake-white, etc., prepared by himself and charged at a quarter of a dollar apiece, and which he told her she would want when she came to do landscapes and figures.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
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Finally with a modicum of calm restored, the French rallied admirably.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're well-crafted, well-executed lyrics, often with a modicum of internal or (less often) end rhyme which leavens them in the mind.
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There's not even a modicum of truth in her statement.
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Just five pretty expertly-styled boys with a modicum of talent.
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Since the Swede's command of the national team it has enjoyed a fair modicum of success, but only results-wise.
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One-eighth and one-sixteenth Hawaiian were they, which meant that seven-eighths or fifteen-sixteenths white blood informed that skin yet failed to obliterate the modicum of golden tawny brown of Polynesia.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Personally, I feel cheated if an election campaign does not include a modicum of shameful brawling.
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The current Bond being filmed is called Modicum of Asshattery, or something equally lame.
SEAN CONNERY IN BOND?
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Besides, I'd probably take all morning to make them make a modicum of sense.
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There are even sensitivity courses aimed at convincing judges that pro se litigants aren't nut-jobs trying to clog up their dockets but ordinary citizens deserving a modicum of respect.
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As the century waned, the glamorous old-style safari, which could be defined as “traveling by caravan to rough it near wildlife in Africa, but not without access to a porcelain tea set,” had been replaced by the peppy new-style safari, “nature travel anywhere, so long as it involves unconventional transport and a modicum of hazard offset by pampering.”
The English Is Coming!
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Manual wheelchair propulsion provides a modicum of exercise and most importantly, provides mobility for non - ambulatory individuals.
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In my community college English classes, I sometimes rail against what I call the generic paper, the kind of response essay that could be written by just about anybody because it is void of even a modicum of individuality.
Joseph Smigelski: The Power of Memory: Use It in Your Writing
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I think most people would find that common sense, together with a modicum of decency and dignity, would be sufficient.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes tendons were transplanted to restore a modicum of mobility, though not in the first year and not under the age of ten.
Christianity Today
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It is necessary work and can perhaps provide a modicum of closure to individuals or a country.
Times, Sunday Times
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It becomes a battle of wills between the cop and the crazy for the life of the girl, although lurking beneath such intimations of horror is a modicum of respect.
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There's not even a modicum of truth in her statement.
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Could we suspect a Committee of Members of Congress of a joke appreciable by mere members of the human family, could we suppose them in a thoughtless moment to have carried into legislation a mildened modicum of that metaphorical language which forms the staple of debate, we should make no remonstrance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
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It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
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What is clear to to anyone with half a brain who has read Augustine – check that you don't even have to have read him but rather simply posses a modicum of common sense, is that he was criticizing Christians who misuse scripture to support incorrect scientific views, views that are not demanded by all viable exegeses of the text, usually just by a hyper-literal one.
Augustine on Creation
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At the final whistle the ball zinged out the ground, carrying with it only a modicum of the frustration which prompted Ferguson to smack it skywards in the first place.
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Most of these are available on the Web to anyone capable of using a search engine with a modicum of ingenuity.
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In an otherwise deathly dull contest, the spectacle of the siblings slogging it out for the top job has provided a modicum of entertainment.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, just as deduction entails an element of induction, the inductive process is likely to entail a modicum of deduction.