middle
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Williams agrees she was a cutup in class, but she never got the chance to do any capital-A acting in middle school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
That much was obvious in the spring when Patterson jumped into the middle of a tackling circuit to teach proper technique, and ended up running through the whole drill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Following their previous battles in the middle of the park, Rice told him "come here and please no more fights, now we're friends".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
"We've got someone in the middle," they sang.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The first seven patients—five men and two women—arrived by barge on the Mississippi River in the middle of the night.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
“We take to fiction, I suppose, because no such thing is going to happen, and at least on the printed page we can observe beginnings, middles and ends, and can find where morality resides.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
I thought I played pretty well, but we talked about the toughness of the game and our middles - the big forwards - laid that platform at the start of the match.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2022
Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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 Bone, David Drummond
He was ane that middled with maist things in the parish, they said.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)
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
Whether it’s the senior analyst, the aging character actor, or the middling sports columnist at a financial newspaper, one must never underestimate a youthful competitor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
I came up with no conclusions, but I did get a middling headache.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
