straddling

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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

Investors of late seem to be straddling fears of missing out on the AI trade and worries over a dot-com-esque bubble.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

Protecting lives is no easy task in the nation’s most populated county, built on land prone to fires and straddling five active earthquake faults.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

They leaned their heads together and tried to make themselves a two-headed reindeer with the headband straddling them both.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman