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Those responses included pressing a button using either the index or middle finger on either hand.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
First, defending in this way blocks the centre of the pitch making it difficult for opponents to find players through the middle.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“We’re in the middle of an operational transition, and it hasn’t gone as smoothly as planned.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This is a “buy weakness” market probably through the middle of October — which, again, typically brings the low for the year in stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Ma looks slight, forlorn, standing in the middle of the road.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
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
But, despite Brouwer's objections, math is a world of either/or a world of sharp divides, a world of excluded middles, a stripped-down version of experience.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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
I make her eyes the color of a stormy gray sky to honor the people of Orléans, but add tiny golden sunflowers around the middles to mirror the royal chrysanthemum.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
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
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
The summer so far stands at $3.6 billion, up 16.7% compared to last year’s middling season and running just 0.7% behind the pre-pandemic summer of 2019, according to Rentrak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
What the Americans learned instead was that they could still be stopped in their tracks by a middling European side with its stars on the bench.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 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
The school he represents, Rider, is a middling institution in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, with a hefty price tag—about $45,000 for tuition, room, and board.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
