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- noun Plural form of
media .
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Examples
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The math of the medias is as good as that of Hillary.
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Simmons begins the story in medias res, introducing the reader to these seven strangers in a world about which nothing is known, but he skillfully reveals everything through the minds, imaginations, and stories of these seven characters.
“Hyperion” by Dan Simmons (Doubleday, 1989) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Simmons begins the story in medias res, introducing the reader to these seven strangers in a world about which nothing is known, but he skillfully reveals everything through the minds, imaginations, and stories of these seven characters.
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The first time one of these guys has a heart attack ‘in medias’, there is going to be hell to pay IMHO.
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Religion as a metaphor in lit and other medias is pretty ubiquitous.
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Every chapter began in medias res and ended with a Grey's Anatomy-style revelatory moral.
Reading Update 2007
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Every chapter began in medias res and ended with a Grey's Anatomy-style revelatory moral.
SeeLight: 2007
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The ‘Wise Old Man’ is a staple of fiction, not, as Jung surmised, because he is a fixture of the racial unconscious, but because he is the handiest device on record for supplying needful exposition in medias res.
Sock Puppet, son of Sock Puppet superversive 2006
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It almost begins in medias res -- as if the song has already been playing.
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It almost begins in medias res -- as if the song has already been playing.
Tipping Your Glass to the 48 States (Music (For Robots)) 2006
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