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This comes amid increasing discussion of Bitcoin's environmental cost. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "Bitcoin Plunges to a Year-Long Low," 20 Nov. 2018 That criticism has only intensified amid reports that Foxconn would transfer some of its Chinese workforce to work in the factory. — Russell Brandom, The Verge, "What a new governor means for Wisconsin’s controversial Foxconn factory," 7 Nov. 2018 Disney previously had allowed visitors with disabilities to go to the front of the line but changed the program in 2013 amid reports of abuse by people without disabilities. — Fox News, "30 lawsuits against Disney Resorts from autistic visitors move forward," 2 Oct. 2018 The home-sharing company has been without a chief financial officer since February, when Laurence Tosi departed amid tensions and a shakeup in the senior ranks. — Recode Staff, Recode, "Recode Daily: Google spends $1 billion on a 52-acre office park in space-constrained Silicon Valley," 27 Nov. 2018 Democracy Facebook published the details of 13 national security letters, Zack Whittaker reports, amid growing demand from the US government for user data. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "How Facebook’s crisis PR firm triggered a PR crisis," 17 Nov. 2018 Dowd resigned as Trump's lead lawyer weeks later amid a dispute over how to answer Mueller's request for a presidential interview. — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, "Mueller told Trump legal team a presidential subpoena could be possible, ex-attorney says," 2 Oct. 2018 In practice, the macroeconomic effects of any carbon tax are likely to be lost amid larger demographic and economic trends. — David Roberts, Vox, "The 5 most important questions about carbon taxes, answered," 20 July 2018 Martin Shkreli’s former pharmaceutical company lost more than $1 million in the first quarter of 2018 amid waning sales of the drug made famous by Shkreli’s more than 5,000-percent price increase. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "The 5,000% price hike that made Martin Shkreli infamous is no longer paying off," 19 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'amid.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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amid
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English Language Learners Definition of amid
: in or into the middle of (something)
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Kids Definition of amid
: in or into the middle of The champ advanced amid cheering crowds.
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