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Narrow margin   /nˈɛroʊ mˈɑrdʒən/   Listen
Narrow margin

noun
1.
A small margin.  Synonyms: narrowness, slimness.  "The landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote"






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"Narrow margin" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the wheel, with a sudden spurt of speed, tried to cross the highway. He did manage to do it, but by such a narrow margin that in very terror Andy Foger shut off the power, jammed down the brakes and steered to one side. So suddenly was he obliged to swerve over that the ponderous machine skidded and went into the ditch at the side of the road, where it brought ...
— Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle • Victor Appleton

... his own club? And then Jack had the proud exultation of knowing that it was he who really won the championship for his side. As for Fred, it is true he was disappointed over the loss of the deciding game, but it was by an exceedingly narrow margin; and he and his fellow-players, as they had their hair cut so as to make them resemble civilized beings, said, with flashing eyes and a ...
— Two Boys in Wyoming - A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) • Edward S. Ellis

... lateral dark dorsal stripes similar to median stripe, but with anterior one-third deeply suffused with 'verona brown'; central light dorsal stripes grayish, slightly lighter than head and rump; lateral stripes white; head and rump 'pale smoke gray'; postauricular patch grayish white, a narrow margin extending up posterior border of ear; anterior portion of ear 'fuscous black' mixed with 'verona brown' at base and bordered by light gray; ocular stripe black grading into 'verona brown' in front of ear; submalar ...
— Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus • John A. White



Words linked to "Narrow margin" :   slimness, margin, narrowness



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