golden mean
Example Sentences
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‘A golden mean exists between security and deprivation.’
From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025
In this way, the virtuous action will be the golden mean, neither too much nor too little.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The result was a fresh argument for a form of pest control — a golden mean of organic and industrial.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2017
Others hope to strike a golden mean between full ripeness and not so much.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2016
Mr. Dunwoody showed us how to find the golden mean using proportions and a ruler, but none of us really got it, not even Clive Pike.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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