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"The middle class," he said, "is looking for someone who will look responsible, boring. I think Eisenkot has that appeal."

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The production paid some crew members and vendors late, lost shoes imported from Italy, and laid off people in the middle of the six-week shoot, the people close to the film said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

TikTok videos posted by Benson showed the youngster performing tricks outside a Hilton hotel plaza and in the middle of a residential street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

ITEP's conclusion is that the middle fifth of households are, on average, around $1,700 worse off in 2026 than they would have been, while the poorest fifth are around $750 worse off.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Among Boston doctors, phrenology is considered serious stuff when Phineas walks into the middle of the debate of the Whole Brainers versus the Localizers.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

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

"Think: all the comforts of banana bread, with more crunchy-sweet edges and fluffy, chocolate-spiked middles — and ready in, oh, about half the time."

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2022

“I’ve had ups and downs and sideways and middles, and the middles may be harder than the downs,” he said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

With towels around their middles and their hair tucked up, Grandma and Mary Alice rolled out endless pastry on big breadboards.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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

And as usual, Mr. Sorkin uses velocity to try to enhance a middling wit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

This year he could pick up three — again for acting and producing, plus he’s nominated for directing, though it’s for one of the more middling episodes of the season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The fact that a quartet of such caliber signed on to this dreck would be surprising if Netflix’s M.O. weren’t trapping great actors in middling movies.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Big dragons, small dragons, dragons of middling size.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill