mediocre

Example Sentences

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Even after a pair of mediocre seasons, the Rangers remained aggressive this winter, making a pair of blockbuster trades, acquiring frontline starter MacKenzie Gore from the Nationals and outfielder Brandon Nimmo from the Mets.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The average U.S.-stock mutual fund or exchange-traded fund posted a total return of just 0.1% in February, to leave the year-to-date total return at a mediocre 2.7%, according to statistics from LSEG.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Jeremy Grantham has a new and provocative argument for why the U.S. stock market will produce mediocre returns this year.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

Ed, one of the sons of the family -- played by Turner -- serves as a narrator of sorts and sums up the rest of his family as "lazy, mediocre, vapid egotists".

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

He’d written a mediocre poem but had performed like a trained actor, which made his mediocre poem sound excellent.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith