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[mid-l] / ˈmɪd l /




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Customers tend to be low or middle income, and are often on fixed budgets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Where they really lost us was management’s commentary that supply would not come into balance until the middle of next year,” Goldberg added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

He may soon be reduced to appearing before middle school PTA meetings across the South, but he’ll still be on TV.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

California’s latest climate forecast projects that by the middle of the century average temperatures will likely increase in the state by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

It is one of many identical ones; a small stack of them sits in the middle of Theo’s desk.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

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

“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

She is stuck in the middle, and middles are always a swamp of inertia, sucking downward.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Snow” is a middling pop number dressed up with a trebly pulsating synth, while “Bass Persuades Remixx” is a decent rework of the opening track, adding some sawtooth synths and switching up the percussion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The proceeds from the film would prove to be middling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

I knowed it waren’t right, but it didn’t seem like it was wrong neither, it was kind of middling twixt the two.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis


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