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
In 2016, he was forced to vacate the WWE World Heavyweight Championship after tearing his ACL, MCL, and medial meniscus, an injury that kept him out of action for seven months.
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Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent research published in The Lancet Rheumatology evaluated 68 participants with medial compartment osteoarthritis (which affects the inside part of your knee).
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Overlays and reinforcements on the medial side of the shoe are designed to stand up to sliding.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
And their medial knee cartilage showed less worsening, suggesting slower cartilage degeneration.
—New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025
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Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent research published in The Lancet Rheumatology evaluated 68 participants with medial compartment osteoarthritis (which affects the inside part of your knee).
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Overlays and reinforcements on the medial side of the shoe are designed to stand up to sliding.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
And their medial knee cartilage showed less worsening, suggesting slower cartilage degeneration.
—New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medial
Adjective
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Silver plans are a middle-tier option that the ACA marketplaces offer for qualifying consumers.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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The 23-year-old rookie was billed as a winger for most of his career, but has been a shockingly impressive middle-six center fill-in with Dubois’ injury.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This was a halfway point for me and a friend in Asheville, and new to us both.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Dec. 2025
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Since December 2000, this is currently the fifth coldest start to the month at the halfway point.—
Michael Autovino,
CBS News,
16 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The median salary is $75,190, and the top 10% of earners get $121,200.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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For students who graduated this year with an MD degree from a four-year medical school in the United States, the median cost of attendance was $318,825, according to Kristen Earle, director of student financial services at the Association of American Medical Colleges.—
Tribune News Service,
Oc Register,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Kernza is the grain produced from intermediate wheatgrass and was cultivated with the goal of creating a perennial grain for human consumption that would also reduce inputs and labor for farmers while providing environmental benefits.—
Cami Koons,
Iowa Capital Dispatch,
6 Jan. 2026
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Volatility can produce opportunity, and TSLA is a good example of a stock with big intermediate-term swings that traders welcome.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The west slopes of the central Appalachians could pick up several inches Monday.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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Behind him, Liverpool need to be wary of Foden, who is beginning to again look like the player who was central to City’s 2023-24 title win.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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In contrast, inabit enables customers to pay directly into the merchant’s own self custodial wallet, removing the intermediary step altogether.—
K.H. Koehler,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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For international transfers, these might include platform fees, recipient bank fees or intermediary bank charges if the funds pass through multiple institutions.—
Jason Phillips,
Kansas City Star,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The Santa Rosa Police Department said in a press release that officers responded to multiple reports of a shooting at the mall and found a 15-year-old boy who had been shot, with the bullet traveling through his body, leaving entry and exit wounds in his upper shoulder and mid-back area.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
6 Jan. 2026
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The story of Quichotte’s quest is being written, in alternating chapters, by Sam DuChamp, a mid-list spy novelist making his first foray into literary fiction.—
Erin Somers,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Medial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medial. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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