when it comes to money, the golden mean is saving some income, while giving yourself a modest spending allowance
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What was once perceived as a temporary fix may, however, prove to be the golden mean.—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 21 June 2025 Embodied is working to achieve a kind of anthropomorphic golden mean with its bot: not so mechanical that children lose interest but not realistic enough for kids to humanize it.—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 5 June 2024 In this world, the golden mean does not exist and equipoise is a pipe dream.—Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022 The result of this mechanical wizardry is the golden mean of a modern luxury conveyance.—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2021 The trajectory's holding steady, not trending to the golden mean of 2%.—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021 Sullivan notes, for instance, Mayan astrologers’ discovery of the golden mean.—Alyssa Mora, Variety, 22 Oct. 2021
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