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For the middle class, nearly two-thirds of wealth is held in their homes and retirement savings, while corporate and business ownership accounts for only 15%.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

As Chancellor John Healey puts the final touches to his first Budget, how are the "squeezed middle" feeling after years of cost-of-living pressure?

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Wendy Edelberg, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, believes central bankers would rather not put themselves in the middle of the political debate ahead of the midterms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

He really is getting faster in the middle of the season by lifting weights, stretching and working out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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

“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

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

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 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

They built the middling family business into a producer active in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

This year he could pick up three — again for acting and producing, plus he’s nominated for directing, though it’s for one of the more middling episodes of the season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

Despite his middling record, Times columnist Bill Plaschke has once again entered the prediction business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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