Moderate
Moderate verb - To grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually.
Release
Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).
Both words in one sentence
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Upon release, this album was a moderate success commercially and received generally positive reviews.
- She then went on to release a greatest hits album, "Pieces of A Dream", in 2005 which was met with moderate success.
Source: Music / Anastacia - For a 2011 re-release in UK cinemas, Ghostbusters (1984) was passed 12A by the BBFC for "moderate sex references", up from the PG of its original 1984 release (five years before 12 was introduced).
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