- a variation of Midwestern.
Middle Western
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Harry S. Truman was different again, and yet in his own way he represented the country, in its Middle Western, small-business, common-sensical strain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2018
How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall?
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2014
There was the picture of the great Middle Western population hemorrhage, the flight to the Sunbelt.
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Nothing in his background as a journeyman Middle Western politician prepared him for the kind of decisions he had to make in the White House.
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In like fashion, the Middle Western wing of the Democratic party was as different from the Southern wing wherein lay its strength, as Douglas was from Calhoun.
From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson
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