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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I’ve thought, “Jesus, what?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Their site in the middle of the town has now been recognised as a county wildlife site.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Recess is just as important for middle school and high school students, yet they are often left out of policies that mandate it.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Michael Collins,” my dad beckoned, addressing me by my first and middle name he loved so well and alone always used, “tell us something you’ve learned in school.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The gold Flash and the sparks from the shotgun collide in the middle.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
He's playing really well for us and so are all our middles - it doesn't matter who comes on, they're all doing a job.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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
He ducked inside a stationer’s shop briefly and came out carrying a small parcel wrapped in brown paper and two fresh rolls, steaming hot, with butter oozing from their middles.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
He showed fair judgment, and middled the ball very neatly to the Campbells and M'Call.
From Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches by David Drummond Bone
He was ane that middled with maist things in the parish, they said.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by G. H. (George Henry) Edwards
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
But the scares were middling to begin with because Øvredal — a game but overeager trickster — telegraphs his set pieces as if he were equipped with a flare gun and detour cones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
I found him at daylight when Mama told me to step out to the dog run and cut down a side of middling meat hanging to the pole rafters.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
