If you get all jazzed up about a mysterious placebo effect, that positive thinking may help you feel even slightly better on subjective scales.

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But the odds that Labour will get an overall majority are just slightly better than even.

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When the stakes are in the billions, shareholders should be more than happy to sign off on a multimillion-dollar paycheck, even if the recipient is just slightly better than the next best option.

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Even though the Graphics Core Next GPUs have been slightly underclocked to 825MHz, and even though they technically offer better performance per watt than a single-GPU configuration, their overall 375w power draw could still get you in trouble with your local power station.

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Over the piece St Johnstone were a little bit better than us and maybe even slightly more determined.

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Even without those one-time gains, the company earnings still would have been slightly better than the previous year.

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Our biggest reservation is that it's slightly pricier than other machines with the same specs -- in fact, there are even a couple better-specced models that cost less.

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