medium-sized

adjective

: neither large nor small
a medium-sized pan
a medium-size car/house/city

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Small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners are under increasing pressure to adopt innovative strategies that ensure not only sustainability but scalable growth of their enterprises. Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 Despite the plants’ size — some are large enough to power a medium-sized city — EIP contends that Texas regulators incorrectly classified three of them as belonging to a Clean Air Act category designed for minor sources of pollution. Saul Elbein, The Hill, 11 June 2025 Found throughout Australia, these medium-sized birds are highly territorial and will defend their nests with surprising boldness against much larger intruders, including humans. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025 Long before the internet glimmered to life, even medium-sized towns were home to as many as half a dozen newspapers. Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for medium-sized

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“Medium-sized.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medium-sized. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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