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The industry will need to hire another 267,000 by the middle of the next decade, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
We wrote that we would serve middle school students and listed our first day as TBD.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
"Just imagine: having to stop right in the middle of the season like that. It's unbearable for a company like ours," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
That sharp single through the middle of the infield was one of just two hits he gave up Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
They got home in the middle of the day.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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
The middles were immense, they laid the platform - definitely at the start of the game.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 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
This frees us from the inevitable smaller crumbs that will start to smolder before the rest, and gives us a new crouton paradigm: crispy edges, yes, but also warm, fluffy middles.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2022
He ducked inside a stationer’s shop briefly and came out carrying a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and two fresh rolls, steaming hot, with butter oozing from their middles.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
He showed fair judgment, and middled the ball very neatly to the Campbells and M'Call.
From Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches by David Drummond Bone
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 Sir Edward Belcher
They built the middling family business into a producer active in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Mr. Garfield, whose career has gone from promising to middling, lacks both the necessary ferocity and charisma in the role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Despite his middling record, Times columnist Bill Plaschke has once again entered the prediction business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
"Tristran?" asked his father, who at five and thirty was still middling tall and still freckled, although there were more than a few silvering hairs in his nut-brown curls.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
