medians

plural of median

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Noun
  • Stocks fell Tuesday , as a pullback in artificial intelligence names weighed on the major averages.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Winter snowfall here averages over 65 feet; the pass had opened literally days before our arrival.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Otherwise, things should be mainly dry with temperatures close to seasonal normals.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • These temperature and precipitation deviations are based on averages (or normals) derived from data provided by government meteorological agencies, data that is updated every ten years, still the Old Farmer’s Almanac claims only 80 percent accuracy.
    Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rather than impose standards on the squad from above, both counted on senior players to set an example.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Assemblies of God enforces a national credentialing system for ministers, giving the General Council power to discipline, restore or expel those who fail to meet its theological and moral standards.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sleepy Hollow’s rigid norms and rules are all ultimately just Sharon’s very strong preferences.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • At Goddard, Segrid Harris was appointed ETD director in January and began enforcing rigid expectations that many staff saw as a cultural break from NASA norms.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The problem is that the objective optimized by the algorithm is good for the people who control the means of prediction…but not good for the rest of society.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Then Vice President Cheney condemned those behind the torture scandal, while at the same time defending water-boarding as a useful means of extracting vital intelligence (many intelligence experts say water-boarding is torture, and its victims will say anything to avoid further abuse).
    Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Medians.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medians. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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