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: in a difficult or unpleasant position She hated conflict and did not want to be put in the middle. He was caught in the middle when his parents got divorced.
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: equally distant from the extremes : medial, central
: being at neither extreme : intermediate
: constituting a division intermediate between those prior and later or upper and lower
: a middle part, point, or position
: the central portion of the human body : waist
: the position of being among or in the midst of something
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