medium-sized
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of medium-sized
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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“Those medium-sized films I loved — like courtroom dramas, family dramas — are just so hard to get made, and it is the same with something of The Odyssey’s scale too,” he told the Times.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
PlanForce joined Teamshares, a publicly traded buyer of small- and medium-sized businesses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It is very challenging for the government to look at all these small- and medium-sized factories,” Ho said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
MPG Tubes -- fairly typical among "Mittelstand" small- and medium-sized businesses in Europe's top economy -- faces a huge challenge to heat metal to 1,500C without producing any of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Well, the method worked all right, but I don’t see how one medium-sized dog’s body could have held that much fluid.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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