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Brubaker, a former Panorama coach, took over as head coach at Royal in the middle of the 2025 season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Extra resources come in at that point where something as important as RAF Fylingdales is threatened by wildfire because it's literally in the middle of a moor, it's very vulnerable," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
A storied Indian conglomerate that owns the country’s biggest outsourcing firm and makes millions of iPhones for Apple is in the middle of a leadership shake-up that has highlighted the challenges facing India’s family-founded behemoths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Those responses included pressing a button using either the index or middle finger on either hand.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A filthy, ripped sofa piled with broken furniture and bags of garbage sits in the middle of the living area, a stained mattress propped up against its side.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
Women often gain weight quickly, or see it shift to their middles, as the body fights to hold onto the estrogen that abdominal fat cells produce.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 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
But, despite Brouwer's objections, math is a world of either/or a world of sharp divides, a world of excluded middles, a stripped-down version of experience.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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
He was ane that middled with maist things in the parish, they said.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by G. H. (George Henry) Edwards
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
The summer so far stands at $3.6 billion, up 16.7% compared to last year’s middling season and running just 0.7% behind the pre-pandemic summer of 2019, according to Rentrak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
The jokes here are very familiar stuff, but as predictable as they are, they’re breezy fun, and “TS5” is an enjoyable if middling Pixar offering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
In so much of modern cinema, “fun” has replaced “safe,” a new adjective with a better connotation meant to save middling films from themselves.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Her skin is a middling color, darker than mine.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
