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  • noun Plural form of middle.

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Examples

  • But, emotionally, I think that the middles are the hardest.

    Latest from Computerworld Paul Glen 2010

  • "Ah! When I was a young man I wrote miles of 'middles' for them" -- stretching out his hands to show the unending chain.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • I told him that I was writing "middles" for the _Saturday_.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • The _Saturday_ in those days was famous for its "middles," and I was very proud to be able to get articles of this kind accepted.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • We chatted and I asked him why his university still doesn't offer distance learning to cater for growing "middles" i.e. middle class, middle manager and middle age group that account more than 30% of Malaysian total population of 28 million?

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Entreprenovator 2009

  • Introduced by a friend to the local renowned English daily correspondent, to my utter surprise, my dispatches found acceptance and were soon published as 'middles'.

    The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public Tajamul Hussain 2009

  • Our middles were the two girls with the most kills, and we were definitely trying to get them the ball. "

    Freep.com - RSS 2008

  • “Ah! When I was a young man I wrote miles of 'middles' for them” ” stretching out his hands to show the unending chain.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • People will expect their stories to have beginnings, middles, and ends -- often in that order!

    INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Bear 2009

  • One exception: experimental literary works that strive to undermine narrative and story conventions – i.e. that willfully lack beginnings, middles and ends, characters, so forth – are usually quite easily classified as fiction (unless they seem to be turning into poems.)

    Philosophy and Literature 2009

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