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Others - including the cyclists' union the CPA - says waking riders in the middle of the night is potentially dangerous and unnecessary.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
By the middle of the 19th century, home heating and an expanding network of railroads required reliable supplies of coal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Iran claims three disputed islets -- Lesser Tunb, Greater Tunb and Abu Musa -- in the middle of the Gulf, which are also claimed by the United Arab Emirates.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Don’t play it safe by aiming for the middle.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
I was up on the board beside Dad with half an old bedsheet wrapped around my middle, hidden under my shirt.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
“We take to fiction, I suppose, because no such thing is going to happen, and at least on the printed page we can observe beginnings, middles and ends, and can find where morality resides.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 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
Through the white carven carpet that had been High Street pushed four oxen, buried up to their middles, dragging behind them a heavy plow.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
This lashing is middled, and passed opposite ways; when finished, the ends appear as if coiled round the crossings.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
He was ane that middled with maist things in the parish, they said.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)
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
The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
In so much of modern cinema, “fun” has replaced “safe,” a new adjective with a better connotation meant to save middling films from themselves.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Should he stay on as a middling player or was it time to vacate his roster spot for more talented athletes?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
She's haughty and well-dressed enough to pass as the daughter of a man of middling political success.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
