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average, intermediate, mean, medium, middle, middling, midsize (also midsized), moderate, modest
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What is the median price of homes in this area? the median price of a home in the areaRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Due to the home's condition, the cost per square foot is $175, way below Portland's median of $253, according to Redfin. — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, "Bargains or money pits? Portland fixer-uppers for sale (photos)," 5 Apr. 2018 Redfin defined affordability by zip codes that have a median home sale price below the national median of $291,700. — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, "Independence Heights is the Houston neighborhood that "Has it all," according to report," 8 Jan. 2018 Their median net worth is still nearly six times higher than the national median for renters, which is just $6,400. — Gene Balk / Fyi Guy, The Seattle Times, "Seattle household net worth ranks among top in nation — but wealth doesn’t reach everyone," 19 Feb. 2019 The city, which was once known as America's foreclosure capital, has recently fallen on hard times, with 1-in-4 residents living below the poverty line and the median household income at nearly $8,000 lower than the national median. — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, "Chicago sets up universal income task force as city seeks ways to tackle poverty," 12 Sep. 2018 To test for this in another way, the researchers calculated the median quality of all of a person's works and then determined whether each piece was better or worse than the median. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Creative types all go through hot streaks of superior production," 11 July 2018 Parents with young children, lower wage earners, and the less educated tip less than the overall median of 18%. — Natasha Bach, Fortune, "Millennials Are America's Worst Tippers," 18 June 2018 The 26 grocery items monitored cost 17 percent more in Sacramento than the median. — Benjy Egel, sacbee, "This item costs more in Sacramento than anywhere else in the continental United States," 4 June 2018 The group said local spending per capita on parks was little more than half the national median. — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, "Mecklenburg wanted to build 129 miles of greenways by 2018. It hasn't even come close.," 1 June 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
The last generation of bosses at 10 major U.S. and European food and drinks companies had a median tenure of nine years, compared with five years for S&P 500 chiefs overall. — Carol Ryan, WSJ, "New Consumer CEOs Are Getting Tougher, Shorter Jobs," 15 Feb. 2019 This fall, those same markets saw median listings prices drop considerably. — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, "Housing market signaled potential future downturn in 2018," 21 Dec. 2018 The 2017 and 2018 reports show that the median speeds provided by cable and fiber networks are still generally at least 100 percent of their advertised speeds. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "Ajit Pai buries 2-year-old speed test data in appendix of 762-page report," 5 Dec. 2018 The median price in January was also down slightly from $254,700 in December. — Harriet Torry, WSJ, "U.S. Existing Home Sales Drop 1.2% in January," 21 Feb. 2019 In the Dallas area, just 55 percent of the listings are affordable for median-income families with 10 percent down payments. — Josh Boak, The Seattle Times, "Analysis: Falling home sales not helping middle-class buyers," 23 Jan. 2019 Comstock’s district, one of the biggest swings on election night, is ranked 18th among 435 House districts in voters with a bachelor’s degree; the median income is high too, at $120,000. — Dylan Scott, Vox, "The suburbs abandoned Republicans in 2018, and they might not be coming back.," 26 Dec. 2018 Meanwhile, the income gap is continuing to widen: the median household income at Queensbridge Houses is $15,000, compared to $133,000 of those in the high-rise apartments in Hunters Point. — Natt Garun, The Verge, "For Queens residents, Amazon’s HQ2 isn’t arriving without a fight," 20 Nov. 2018 And women of retirement age rely on a median income of about $16,000 a year, which is around $11,000 than men of the same age. 14. — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, "14 Ways Women Still Aren't Equal to Men," 6 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'median.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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