straddling

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This places the stocks into three baskets, with 33% in the value group, 33% in the growth group and 34% straddling both value and growth.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

Instead of hand-wringing about all of the doom and gloom like so many other filmmakers, Anderson lets the viewer have some fun, deftly straddling the line between bleak and downright silly.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2025

Wood, 46, has lately been straddling a narrowing gap between political and personal comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

She is psychologically complex, straddling both beautiful sincerity and utter vapidity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

One stood right at the intersection of Northern Lights Road, straddling the highway, and they drove between his legs.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan