middle
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"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
A prolonged Hormuz blockade keeps the pressure on nitrogen; a normalization scenario reopens room for the phosphate names; and diversified potash exposure sits somewhere in the middle.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
But the mayor, who is in the middle of an election year, may not be the one in charge during the Olympics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the middle of the first century B.C.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The knight planted himself in the middle of the road, challenging every one of those "knights" to fight, one by one or in a group.
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
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
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
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
What about skyscrapers made with moving parts, so they could rearrange themselves when they had to, and even open holes in their middles for planes to fly through?
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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 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)
The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
It’s also a full 22 points above Los Angeles, which has a middling score of 69.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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
Should he stay on as a middling player or was it time to vacate his roster spot for more talented athletes?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
On the right was a nondescript gentleman of middling age, height, and handsomeness.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
