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as in middle
a middle point between extremes always choose a wine that is at the midpoint of the range of prices on the list

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as in midst
an area or point that is an equal distance from all points along an edge or outer surface that house is the precise midpoint of the school district

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Recent Examples of midpoint The zone is 17 inches wide — the width of home plate — and pitch location is measured at the midpoint between the front and back of the plate. Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025 The percentage increases in Central Florida counties were around the midpoint statewide in as analysis of rates between March 2022 and September 2024. Ron Hurtibise, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025 That said, the impact of cord-cutting was made evident in the company’s annual report, which states that the Fox Sports 1 network reached 67 million households as of the midpoint of 2024. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 4 Feb. 2025 Backing out the tax-rate change, the midpoint would be $4.37 a share. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for midpoint
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Noun
  • Text removed from the January statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Parker Kelly moved back to the middle on the fourth line, with Joel Kiviranta and Logan O’Connor.
    Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
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  • That’s why the Maryland demand – coming in the midst of a swirl of legislative hostility and intense legal scrutiny – seems like a much bigger deal than the prior cease-and-desist letters.
    Daniel Wallach, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The Panthers are in the midst of a rare rough patch, having dropped three of their past four games, including blowing a third-period lead in two of those defeats.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Sweetwater Creek This state park is a still refuge just a few minutes from Atlanta’s bustling city center.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Ransomware is like a hard-drive failure in a server or storage array, a power outage at the office or data center or a localized or system-wide network outage.
    John Bruggeman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Midpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midpoint. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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