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As the Washington Huskies surveyed the scene at the College Football Playoff media day inside Houston’s downtown convention center, you couldn’t have blamed them for feeling a bit as if they were straddling two worlds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2024

Sgt Paul Moorcroft, who investigated the collision for Derbyshire Police, said other vehicles had either changed lanes to avoid Mr Jacobs' van, or moved to the right so they were straddling lanes one and two.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023

Yet the ferocity of such barrages reflected something more: the deep fault-lines the couple were straddling.

From Economist • Oct. 20, 2016

Frank, Cooper and Nicole, chilled but grimly reassured by Cooper's remark, cleared away the children who were straddling the cannon's four-foot-long black barrel, and the women who were sitting against its wooden carriage.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

We were straddling among a sporting group in The Chequers bar, when he said, "Better settle over Dexter."

From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by Runciman, James