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• in-between
  in-between

  noun

  a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc..
• in between
  in between

  In an intermediate situation, as in My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between. [Late 1500s]

in-between

American  

[in-bi-tween] / ˌɪn bɪˈtwin /

noun

1. a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc..

   yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.

2. a person who handles the intermediary steps, as in a manufacturing or sales process.

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adjective

1. being between one thing, condition, etc., and another.

   a coat for in-between weather.

in-between British  

adjective

1. intermediate

   he's at the in-between stage, neither a child nor an adult

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noun

1. an intermediate person or thing

in between Idioms  

1. In an intermediate situation, as in My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between. [Late 1500s]

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Other Word Forms

• in-betweenness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of in-between

First recorded in 1805–15

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Example Sentences

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in-between in between

I’ve good news, bad news, complex news and in-between news.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Put those two matches back-to-back on Arthur Ashe with a short break in-between and suddenly whoever is playing second isn't finishing until about 3am.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Throughout his career, Neill pitted himself against creatures both real and imagined — or, even more often, somewhere in-between — to reveal humanity’s foibles in the face of the freakish and fantastic.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

“FivePoint was a great venue to help artists that are in that in-between stage, and not fully ready for arenas,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

These in-between places are scary, but then again, I understand that nothing is ever certain.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Adjusted Ebitda—or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization—is now projected to come in between $1.58 billion and $1.63 billion, up from a previous forecast of $1.45 billion to $1.5 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Amanpour reflected on her "very first big exciting assignment covering the First Gulf War, to the horrors of the Bosnian War, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran and all the points in between".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Warsh’s only real reference to the data that’s come in between the last meeting and now — cooling payrolls growth, hotter-than-forecast consumer and producer prices — that it was more or less what he expected.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

His intentions are not to land a joke in between the lines of these structures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Did anything strange happen in between those times?” asked Frank.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

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