Middle American
Britishadjective
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of or relating to the territories between the US and South America or their inhabitants
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of or relating to the US middle class, esp those groups that are politically conservative
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Middle America
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a member of the US middle class
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
“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.
From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024
“Catholic traditionalists, Orthodox Jews, Middle American small-business owners and skeptical liberal atheists may not seem to have much in common,” he wrote in 2020.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2022
One failed pilot was about “a dad making observations about Middle American midlife livin.’
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022
When the continental deserts were formed, or reformed, many tropical and subtropical Middle American species were forced to leave Coahuila.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.
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