middle-of-the-roadism

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Noun
  • Corder's funeral was held on July 11, with colleagues and city officials honoring his service and sacrifice.
    Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 12 July 2025
  • The percentage is small, in part, because military service demands an unusually high level of commitment and sacrifice.
    Terina Allen, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Ike Ugbo was signed for £2.5m from Troyes last summer in a deal that bucked the trend of frugality.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 1 July 2025
  • We were terrified of his strict rules on frugality....
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • But Constance offered no more in her own defense, for all her mortification.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
  • Oldman’s face, set in brooding concentration, evokes a pained, vaguely incredulous mortification, which builds to a bitter, almost paralyzing ruefulness.
    Houman Barekat, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That kind of asceticism seemed neither fun nor sustainable.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
  • Role models for digital moderation, much less asceticism, are in short supply.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • Crace transports readers two thousand years into the past to a stark Biblical landscape full of visceral encounters, violence, self-denial, and possible miracles.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • But the biblical term for self-denial – inui – has another meaning.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Dyer writes that his father’s nature expressed itself mostly in caution, diligence, a kind of austerity.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • Dyer’s father was traumatized by the austerity of growing up in England between two military cataclysms, and his daily satisfaction is bound in his ability to pinch pences.
    Daniel Felsenthal, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Molineaux’s passion for self-discipline and mental resilience is central to his philosophy.
    Reem Amro, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
  • In Aries, a Fire sign that thrives on taking the lead, we’re called to channel our energy into personal goals and self-discipline.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • At its core, Wimbledon is a British brand built on restraint: the all-white dress code, the absence of in-your-face, on-court branding, the strawberries and cream.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • Critics say Trump has only become more dangerous, pursuing radical ideas without restraint.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 July 2025
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“Middle-of-the-roadism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-of-the-roadism. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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