Middle American

adjective

1. of or relating to the territories between the US and South America or their inhabitants

2. of or relating to the US middle class, esp those groups that are politically conservative

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Middle America

2. a member of the US middle class

Example Sentences

The story centers on Alice, an ordinary Middle American girl who begins to suffer from a mental disorder while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.

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In Vance, Republicans have a potential vice president who projects a hostile affectation of purported Middle American family values.

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It’s 1922, and the middle American kingdom of Cahokia is thriving.

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“It wasn’t that easy,” says Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University’s Middle American Research Institute and an expert in the Preclassic and Classic Maya periods.

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The event, Rios said, was deliberately Middle American — “baseball, hot dogs and apple pie,” she said — as befitting the desire to keep the effort broad and bottom-up, with reach “from Fairbanks to Philadelphia.”

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