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We wrote that we would serve middle school students and listed our first day as TBD.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
"Just imagine: having to stop right in the middle of the season like that. It's unbearable for a company like ours," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Troops had mixed feelings about the technology, with some noting it isn’t always practical to look at a screen in the middle of a firefight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
He went out in the middle of the session, after the others did their first runs, and ended up with a time 0.501secs from pole, much further away than Mercedes would have hoped.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
In the middle of the second week, hospital authorities arranged a ride for me on a food truck headed south.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
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
“I’ve had ups and downs and sideways and middles, and the middles may be harder than the downs,” he said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
Doors in the middles of all the cars, except the last one, slid open with a whir and a BONG! chime.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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
But the action in that final second turned an unheralded matchup between middling out-of-conference opponents into a piece of college football lore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
