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So 19 members of Syston Community Flood Group donned their wellies in the middle of summer and took to Syston Brook to clear an estimated "two or three tonnes" of silt.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

But once again, Davis finds herself in the middle of history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

Annie Guthrie, Nancy’s middle child, and her husband, Tommaso Cioni, were waiting for deputies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

"There's a sweet spot in the middle where there's enough water to slow that fire down but there's enough oil to push that fire on."

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

I pull a folder labeled “Around the World” from the middle of the box and flip it open.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

We're often stuck in the middles or the betweens, or even like for me, when I was successful, that was the time I was struggling the most mentally.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2023

We love the criminal trial for the same reason Shakespeare and Court TV loved them: Morality plays, gripping narratives, heroes and villains, and the story that begins and middles and ends.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023

He's playing really well for us and so are all our middles - it doesn't matter who comes on, they're all doing a job.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2022

Bennedith, it turns out, is a woman who follows the improvisational comedy rule of “Yes, and…” Like the novel in which she appears, her experiences have predictable beginnings, mind-bending middles and astonishing ends.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

Another dot next, middled to cover, then a single to square leg.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

Watson skims a drive through the covers for a couple; that's the first one he's vaguely middled.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2012

Khawaja middled the ball to mid-on, although he was not perfectly positioned.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2011

This lashing is middled, and passed opposite ways; when finished, the ends appear as if coiled round the crossings.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

He showed fair judgment, and middled the ball very neatly to the Campbells and M'Call.

From Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches by Bone, David Drummond

The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

None of these middling elements would be particularly grating if it weren’t so apparent that “Cars” had an ulterior capitalist motive.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

But the scares were middling to begin with because Øvredal — a game but overeager trickster — telegraphs his set pieces as if he were equipped with a flare gun and detour cones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Cornelys relaunched the masquerade while opening it to the middling sort, alternating private parties with public nights for “any proper person” with a ticket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin