mediocre
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I would much rather watch a perennial winning Dodger team on TV than go to three or four games a year and watch a perennial mediocre team.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
Whatever class of film I believed I’d be getting after watching other mediocre Tubi Originals in the past, I was so very wrong about.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
You will pay a long-term price with such stocks, however, according to the research, since they will tend to be mediocre performers when liquidity returns to the market.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 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
“Yet you confide much more in a boy who is incapable of Occlumency, whose magic is mediocre, and who has a direct connection into the Dark Lord’s mind!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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