middle
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Pitta looks in such good shape he could probably demonstrate himself how to catch a pass over the middle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The school opted for a middle ground, purchasing 200 graphing calculators from French company NumWorks for its ninth-grade classes, with plans to create a schoolwide rollout over three years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Secular Israelis were prepared with a counter-protest, blowing whistles to drown out the chants and with some wearing pink lapel buttons showing a middle finger.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Flávio’s challenge, rather, is to convince voters in the middle, political scientists say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Charlie had seen Tansy home in the middle of the night.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
The middles were immense, they laid the platform - definitely at the start of the game.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
"Think: all the comforts of banana bread, with more crunchy-sweet edges and fluffy, chocolate-spiked middles — and ready in, oh, about half the time."
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2022
During the Mass, Ma tightened a leather belt around her belly, the way some old Haitian women tightened rags around their middles when grieving.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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 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
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
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
I came up with no conclusions, but I did get a middling headache.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
