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ITEP's conclusion is that the middle fifth of households are, on average, around $1,700 worse off in 2026 than they would have been, while the poorest fifth are around $750 worse off.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Now, the pride moves in both directions — with Sofia as reverent of her mother’s work as Eleanor was of hers — meeting in the middle to stretch into the future.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

"Mark Carney shows middle powers how to handle a dangerous world," reads one of its headlines, with an article which also focuses on Canada's "vulnerabilities" including Alberta's ballot.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Carrie Ann certainly didn’t deserve to get caught in the middle of my bad judgment, and I hate that she was.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

“That telephone company must still have you on the night shift”—he carries on, saying this phrase like it tastes bad: night shift—“if you managed to take a train in the middle of the day.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

“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

The other girls agreed, touching their own distended middles.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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

And as usual, Mr. Sorkin uses velocity to try to enhance a middling wit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The fact that a quartet of such caliber signed on to this dreck would be surprising if Netflix’s M.O. weren’t trapping great actors in middling movies.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Disney’s live-action “Mufasa: The Lion King” opened in 2024 to a middling $35 million, but ended up grossing more than $722 million globally through the holiday season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

On the day Seabiscuit settled in at the Detroit Fair Grounds, Pollard was in North Randall, Ohio, sweltering through August at a middling racetrack called Thistle Down Park, which was wrapping up its summer meeting.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand