strike a happy medium
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By contrast, dogs with authoritative pet parents strike a happy medium.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2022
Royall Tyler, in 2001, tried to strike a happy medium.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015
Menzies was notably less belligerent than he had been earlier this year, saying: "We must strike a happy medium between the insistence on our own position and recognition of the rights of other people."
From Time Magazine Archive
The balanced funds that try to strike a happy medium between income and growth also showed up considerably better on the whole than the Dow-Jones average.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Maybe it is the other way and Sally talks so much to make up for Jo's silence," I said; "but I hope the cousin from New York will strike a happy medium."
From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell
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