in-between

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Recent Examples of in-between Celebrities like Jennifer Garner and Anne Hathaway have mastered in-between dressing with similar short-sleeve sweaters, too. Averi Baudler, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025 There is a range of in-between outcomes, a spectrum that reflects gradations of sovereignty and degrees of religious or ethnic autonomy. Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 This same concept applies to smaller, in-between interactions, too. Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 But there were circumstances, troubles, and should the in-between woman get too much into her own mother, about whom whole books could be written, the older woman would become upset. Weike Wang, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in-between
Recent Examples of Synonyms for in-between
Adjective
  • Finding leaders who operate successfully across these tensions seems theoretical, borderline mythical at best.
    Dilan Gomih, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Other times, there were borderline late hits, and then wars of words led to physical escalation.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • It’s set in a small-town community in upstate New York, where the long-gray-haired and bearded Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) is the contempo version of a fire-and-brimstone cult leader, preaching fury in the form of piety.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But Leticia Gutierrez, a gray-haired Catholic nun, asked them to sit down.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025

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“In-between.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/in-between. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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