middling
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And while Stafford’s numbers are more middling than fall-off-a-cliff poor, they rank among his slowest statistical starts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
They built the middling family business into a producer active in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
What the Americans learned instead was that they could still be stopped in their tracks by a middling European side with its stars on the bench.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
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