happy medium
noun
: a good choice or condition that avoids any extremes
The car's designers have found/struck a happy medium between affordability and luxury.
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Now, not everyone is a company's CEO, so there has to be a happy medium, an opportunity to get real, practical value at prices that are comparable to what we are used to paying for software as a service.
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Andrew Filev, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Somewhere there is a happy medium to be found between the overbroad rules of the previous administration and the complete absence of rules for domestic companies that the present administration has now adopted.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
As the name suggests, the GTS is designed to find a happy medium between the S focus on sporty driving and the GT’s everyday livability.
—Trinity Francis, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
This climate gives elevated trash the perfect opportunity to find a foothold as a happy medium between mindless garbage and more challenging, cerebral fare.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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Andrew Filev, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Somewhere there is a happy medium to be found between the overbroad rules of the previous administration and the complete absence of rules for domestic companies that the present administration has now adopted.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
As the name suggests, the GTS is designed to find a happy medium between the S focus on sporty driving and the GT’s everyday livability.
—Trinity Francis, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
This climate gives elevated trash the perfect opportunity to find a foothold as a happy medium between mindless garbage and more challenging, cerebral fare.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for happy medium
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“Happy medium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/happy%20medium. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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