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.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024 -
The light catches her translucent sleeve and the wall in the middle ground.
— Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024 -
The judge asked them to keep trying to find some middle ground.
— Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Its shape echoes that of the bird and the lone monkey clinging to a tree trunk in the middle ground.
— Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022 -
And those on both sides of the issue say there may be no middle ground.
— Amy Schoenfeld Walker, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023 -
What does the middle ground look like in a place like Missouri?
— NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021 -
There has been no real middle ground for the Rangers in June.
— Dallas News, 16 June 2022 -
But like Blair, Starmer has shifted to the middle ground.
— Alexander Smith, NBC News, 5 July 2024 -
There’s not a lot of middle ground shots: landscape and faces.
— Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 Dec. 2021 -
And – and is there a way to devise a law to somehow find a middle ground on that?
— NBC News, 26 Dec. 2021 -
The Cooleys tried to find a middle ground and asked for a variance to build a 1,550 square foot home.
— al, 12 Mar. 2022 -
The happy middle ground is to do both and leave it up to the hummers to decide.
— Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024 -
The efforts to find a middle ground had been playing out for weeks.
— Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021 -
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.
— Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 19 July 2023 -
Lankford held out hope that a middle ground can be reached.
— Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024 -
And does transparency seem like a good middle ground here, to you?
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023 -
By now, the debate has more or less eased into a middle ground.
— Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023 -
Sonnet, the middle ground model, was twice as fast as Claude 2 and Claude 2.1.
— Emilia David, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024 -
This all points to the fact that the average worker is looking for a middle ground.
— David Morel, Forbes, 21 June 2022 -
Sliders are set to a default middle ground at first, and users can tweak it from there.
— Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2024 -
There is no middle ground on the path to a livable future, at least not anymore.
— Mary Annaïse Heglar, The New Republic, 3 May 2022 -
And the goal of Islands of Abandonment is not to suggest that a middle ground has been found.
— Deboki Chakravarti, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2021 -
Busse is trying to mobilize a group in the middle ground.
— New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021 -
When black feels too harsh but camel brown is a bit too loud, chocolate brown is the perfect middle ground.
— Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 7 Dec. 2022 -
Despite her willingness to find a middle ground, commenters felt the mom did the right thing.
— Melissa Willets, Parents, 15 Nov. 2023 -
The Leo new moon on August 4 is the time to embrace the good and the bad, the sweet and the sour, and find a middle ground between these extremities.
— Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Dear Feeling: If this were indeed just a habit, then there might be middle ground on which to meet him.
— cleveland, 9 July 2021 -
Cameron Anderson’s set in the first act — an awkward middle ground between period and minimal, and between serious and cartoony — was a swing and a miss.
— Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024
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