straddle
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If England want another player who can straddle the No. 9 and No. 10 positions simultaneously, then Bellingham could be their best fit.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
A tunnel links the SpaceX and Boring properties, which straddle a public road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Lake Ontario is the smallest by surface area of the five Great Lakes, which straddle the border between the United States and Canada.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Cost: Price of the straddle expressed as a percentage of the underlying stock price.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
When my hands straddle the corner, I swing my right boot up over the side.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
The home sits in an area that straddles both cities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The lab sat on an acre of land in a forest that straddles the border of Abidagba and Iroto villages.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The park and its surrounds are known as the Amboseli ecosystem, a vast area that straddles the border with Tanzania, which is famous for its wildlife.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mount Everest straddles the border between Nepal and China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
He straddles the bike, resting back on the seat, both feet firmly planted.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
His rhythm arrangements wisely straddled romantic soul and dance to maximize radio and club attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
The defending Olympic champion duly followed team orders to attack, but it didn't last long as he straddled a gate high up the course.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
A year after the fire, my mind whirls between nostalgia and today’s reality, where I’ve straddled the roles of reporter and heartbroken Altadenan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
The Archers straddled those worlds of agriculture and broadcast, with the drama dreamt up as a creative way to inform farmers about new farming methods while entertaining people too.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
Then, to kill time painlessly for the Comanches, he straddled his seat backward and released a new installment of “The Laughing Man.”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
In fact, some of America’s long-standing allies have already started straddling.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Volvo Cars, a Swedish carmaker owned by a Chinese company that has a factory and material sales in the U.S., is no stranger to straddling geopolitical divides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
There’s a fine line between lucky and cursed, however, and Pulisic is straddling it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov in 2023 ordered a 43-metre-tall golden statue of himself straddling an Akhal-Teke in a pose reminiscent of Napoleon Bonaparte.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Putting as much distance between each other as possible, leaving me straddling the in-between.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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