How to Use middle ground in a Sentence
middle ground
noun
- The judge of the case chose a middle ground between harshness and leniency.
- Both sides in this debate need to do more to establish some middle ground.
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And instead, the judge picked a middle ground of sorts.
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Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
18 Mar. 2024
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A lot of love-it or hate-it and … not much middle ground.
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Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
2 Dec. 2024
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The light catches her translucent sleeve and the wall in the middle ground.
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Angelica Aboulhosn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Mar. 2024
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The judge asked them to keep trying to find some middle ground.
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Karen Kaplan,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2023
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Its shape echoes that of the bird and the lone monkey clinging to a tree trunk in the middle ground.
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Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2022
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And those on both sides of the issue say there may be no middle ground.
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Amy Schoenfeld Walker,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2023
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What does the middle ground look like in a place like Missouri?
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NBC News,
5 Sep. 2021
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There has been no real middle ground for the Rangers in June.
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Dallas News,
16 June 2022
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But like Blair, Starmer has shifted to the middle ground.
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Alexander Smith,
NBC News,
5 July 2024
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There’s not a lot of middle ground shots: landscape and faces.
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Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
15 Dec. 2021
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For me, striking that middle ground is a work in progress.
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Stephanie Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2024
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And – and is there a way to devise a law to somehow find a middle ground on that?
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NBC News,
26 Dec. 2021
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The Cooleys tried to find a middle ground and asked for a variance to build a 1,550 square foot home.
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al,
12 Mar. 2022
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The happy middle ground is to do both and leave it up to the hummers to decide.
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Joan Morris,
The Mercury News,
24 June 2024
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For those who need to put some miles on their soles, look for a boot that finds some middle ground.
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Outdoor Life,
16 Mar. 2021
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The efforts to find a middle ground had been playing out for weeks.
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Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly,
CNN,
1 Nov. 2021
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There are a lot of teams that are sort of in that middle ground, that don’t know how the next two weeks are going to go.
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Sportsday Staff,
Dallas News,
19 July 2023
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Lankford held out hope that a middle ground can be reached.
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Jamie McIntyre,
Washington Examiner,
8 Jan. 2024
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And does transparency seem like a good middle ground here, to you?
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2023
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By now, the debate has more or less eased into a middle ground.
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Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
12 July 2023
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Sonnet, the middle ground model, was twice as fast as Claude 2 and Claude 2.1.
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Emilia David,
The Verge,
4 Mar. 2024
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Yet a third option may be to find a middle ground between a strict rule and mere nudges.
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Lila MacLellan,
Quartz at Work,
16 Dec. 2020
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This all points to the fact that the average worker is looking for a middle ground.
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David Morel,
Forbes,
21 June 2022
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Sliders are set to a default middle ground at first, and users can tweak it from there.
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Mia Sato,
The Verge,
30 Aug. 2024
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But the sides have spent 19 months trying to find a middle ground and have been unable to reach an agreement.
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David Moore,
Dallas News,
29 Jan. 2021
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There is no middle ground on the path to a livable future, at least not anymore.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar,
The New Republic,
3 May 2022
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And the goal of Islands of Abandonment is not to suggest that a middle ground has been found.
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Deboki Chakravarti,
Scientific American,
27 Aug. 2021
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More often, boards and activists find middle ground to reach a settlement.
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Jeff Jacobs,
Forbes,
31 Oct. 2024
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