as in middle
occupying a position equally distant from the ends or extremes
four is the medial number between one and seven
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Recent Examples of medial
The rippled, frill-like edges are seen on the lateral and medial side panels of the shoe across three neutral earth tone spins on the 204L in Sea Salt/Linen (style code U204L2SZ), Lone Star Gray/Sea Salt (style code U204L5AV) and Reflection/Truffle Salt (style code U204L6A6).
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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
The procedure kept the ACL, the medial meniscus, and cartilage on the knee’s inner part intact.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 8 Feb. 2026
What remains unclear is how removing the medial ankle pivot will affect the boot’s flex pattern.
—Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
But Scudero, who came into the game leading the country with 50 receptions, 845 yards receiving and eight touchdowns, was held to six catches for 25 yards and required medial attention multiple times during the loss.
—Aaron Johnson, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
The procedure kept the ACL, the medial meniscus, and cartilage on the knee’s inner part intact.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 8 Feb. 2026
What remains unclear is how removing the medial ankle pivot will affect the boot’s flex pattern.
—Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
But Scudero, who came into the game leading the country with 50 receptions, 845 yards receiving and eight touchdowns, was held to six catches for 25 yards and required medial attention multiple times during the loss.
—Aaron Johnson, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medial
Adjective
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And then Harris, just an 0-0 slider, trying to get it away and left it middle-in.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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Ever the contrarian, Rødland decided to forge a middle path.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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Still, more than one in 10 firms scored zero, and only eight companies cleared the halfway mark.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Mar. 2026
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Around the halfway point, though, the situation began to change.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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While the nation’s median age has risen across racial and ethnic groups, the increase is sharpest among White Americans (from 30 to 45 years old) and Black Americans (from 21 to 36 years old).—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Bottom Line for Fort Worth Buyers Fort Worth remains more affordable than the national market, with a median home price roughly $70,000 below the national median of approximately $410,000.—
System Process,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Wang — who speaks Italian at a B2, or upper intermediate level, and has four great-grandparents from Sicily — had already made an appointment to recognize her citizenship, so hoped she might be treated as a case in progress.—
Julia Buckley,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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Reopened later that day after a third visit found one intermediate violation.—
Kari Barnett,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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Now the war has turned into a race to stabilize the rapidly deteriorating global economic order, central to which is reopening the Strait of Hormuz.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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The neighborhood/area The hotel is in the most central spot within Copenhagen’s old town.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Mar. 2026
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In this case, the VIP customer was a 38-year-old Chinese woman who sent nearly $200 million of the stablecoin Tether to an intermediary wallet, which then relayed the funds to Entity A between November and December 2024.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
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Whatever the cause, intermediary bites and sips make up a growing portion of Americans’ daily consumption, especially among young people, as my colleague Ellen Cushing wrote in 2024.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Certain European airports still project a mid-century grandeur.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Under bright skies, highs will climb into the mid and upper 50s for most locations, except for the south facing shores of Long Island and Connecticut, where highs will only be in the 40s.—
Matthew Villafane,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Medial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medial. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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