1
as in decent
of average to below average quality
your grades are mediocre and barely acceptable
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2
as in terrible
of low quality
mediocre carvings in a pseudo-African style that are sold to tourists
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Recent Examples of mediocre
And after a mediocre performance for the Pacers in Game 2, Haliburton turned it up from three-point territory to lead the way for Indiana.
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
His removal from office, and the mediocre leadership that followed, facilitated World War I. That history applies today.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
This means: • Spending hours optimizing crawl budgets won’t fix mediocre content.
—Nick Zviadadze, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Vest — once a Rule 5 pick who was returned to the Tigers after a mediocre stint with the Seattle Mariners — closed the door for the 10th time this season.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 7 June 2025
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
His removal from office, and the mediocre leadership that followed, facilitated World War I. That history applies today.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
This means: • Spending hours optimizing crawl budgets won’t fix mediocre content.
—Nick Zviadadze, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Vest — once a Rule 5 pick who was returned to the Tigers after a mediocre stint with the Seattle Mariners — closed the door for the 10th time this season.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mediocre
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Fields had a decent season with the Steelers, going 4-2 before he was replaced by Russell Wilson.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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Start by rolling them on a countertop with a decent amount of pressure; doing so helps release the lemon juice from its membranes.—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
23 June 2025
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Rarely great, and consistently cringey in that NHL way we’re used to by now, but rarely terrible.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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Gi-hun is left with a terrible choice: kill the baby and survive, or sacrifice himself so that the baby can live.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
27 June 2025
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To begin with, bombardment is unlikely to lead to a satisfactory outcome.—
Robert Kagan,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
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At highway cruising speed, the SUV is satisfactory.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
16 June 2025
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Despite having a poor 2024 season that saw the Pirates remove Bednar from the closer role, the right-hander is back to his dominant form.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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The key drivers are BGE’s soaring spending and profits and poor management by PJM Interconnection, the private entity that operates our electric grid.—
Emily Scarr,
Baltimore Sun,
29 June 2025
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The brightness and color reproduction are lackluster, almost as if Acer deliberately found the most middling budget screen possible.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Does his 1960s childhood resemble mine in the 1970s because my native Dublin lagged behind the times, trailing even a middling English town?—
Book Marks
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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Bellini noted that hacking operations are much cheaper than bullets, planes or nuclear arms -- what defense analysts call kinetic warfare.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 June 2025
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Introductory pricing: Spectrum’s most affordable plan is much cheaper than AT&T's, at$30 a month compared to AT&T’s $55 a month for 100 and 300 Mbps download speeds,respectively.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Original Price: $44.99 This 16-inch Amazon Basics fan delivers powerful airflow to medium and large rooms.—
Jené Luciani Sena , Caitlyn Martyn
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FOXNews.com,
23 June 2025
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Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy, 1 to 2 minutes.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
23 June 2025
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Told that Indigenous people were evolutionarily inferior to white Europeans and Americans, visitors accepted the idea that colonialist progress would soon condemn these groups to extinction.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
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The Pacers are just way more inferior and the Thunder got stagnant all of a sudden.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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“Mediocre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediocre. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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