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straddle

[strad-l] / ˈstræd l /
VERB
bestride
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VERB
sit or stand on both sides
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The New Ohio’s annual festival of experimental, devised and playful performance is curated this year by the likes of Elevator Repair Service and Half Straddle.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2018

During his tenure, he has transformed the Playhouse and the building’s two smaller theaters from rental locations to spaces that sponsor performance innovators like Taylor Mac, Richard Maxwell, Half Straddle and Les Frères Corbusier.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2015

Half Straddle turned the space into a playing field, with bleachers, for “In the Pony Palace/Football”; Performance Lab 115 restaged Wagner’s “Ring” Cycle as an epic wrestling match.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014

That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top.

From Time Magazine Archive

The immoderate fondness which Wild entertained for his dear Laetitia would not suffer him to waste any considerable time with Miss Straddle.

From The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Fielding, Henry




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