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A day later, they took Perim Island, which sits in the middle of the Bab al-Mandeb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the eighth inning, he dove after a ground ball up the middle, as shortstop Mookie Betts hurdled over him, and was slow to get up, holding his right shoulder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The conditions have helped make new areas of the continent more appealing for Europe’s wealthy and middle classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The first grapes were cut in early August and the harvest expanded by the middle of the month, "the earliest ever recorded in Champagne", the association said.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Will you telephone me in the middle of the night?
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
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
Bennedith, it turns out, is a woman who follows the improvisational comedy rule of “Yes, and…” Like the novel in which she appears, her experiences have predictable beginnings, mind-bending middles and astonishing ends.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 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
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 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
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
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
Disney’s live-action “Mufasa: The Lion King” opened in 2024 to a middling $35 million, but ended up grossing more than $722 million globally through the holiday season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 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
Her English was middling at best; her reading comprehension minimal.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
