golden mean
Example Sentences
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‘A golden mean exists between security and deprivation.’
From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025
In this way, the virtuous action will be the golden mean, neither too much nor too little.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
And yet, she still recommends Aristotle's "golden mean," which she summarizes as "the right emotion or the right action for the right context in the right amount."
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2022
She claims that teams must strike an optimal balance between diversity and homogeneity and that teams that fall too far on either side of the golden mean win fewer games.
From Slate • May 2, 2017
It is the job of your real-estate agent, of course, to find the golden mean.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
