middle ground

Example Sentences

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But it’s much harder to be a realist—to look at America’s biggest strategic competitor and seek a stable middle ground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Terahertz light has long been considered promising for imaging because it occupies a useful middle ground.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

This plea for the middle ground between praise and criticism is not something that England's coaching staff have invented to mitigate post-defeat criticism.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

It was the perfect middle ground between Sean Bateman, Dawson Leery and Van Der Beek himself, a meta character that only an actor with a massive reserve of humility could pull off.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

Most occupy a vast middle ground of ordinary, while others are more distinct: pleasant, even beautiful, or sometimes slippery and unaccountably wrong-feeling.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor