middle-of-the-roadism

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Noun
  • On her podcast, Rose shared her intention to provide insight into the realities of being a wrestler for WWE, pointing to the sacrifices required that come along with the job.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Their loyalty goes beyond airport pick-ups or wingman sacrifices.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Cincinnati Bengals have been criticized for years for being the one of the few NFL teams without a true indoor practice facility—viewed by some fans as a symbol of ownership’s frugality.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The 38-year-old Overland Park resident strives to limit his out-of-pocket expenses to $1,000 a month, part of a frugality born out of a challenging life.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • MacCulloch is particularly engaging in his discussion of how baffling the early Christian mortification of the flesh would have seemed to contemporaries.
    S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Hong again employs the long table-time takes that have witnessed the mortification of so many drunken characters, this time skewering Donghwa.
    Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The bout of asceticism didn’t deter her from finishing a quarter of the album, however.
    Arimeta Diop, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Louise tells tales of drunkenness, asceticism, death.
    Hervé Guibert, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But the biblical term for self-denial – inui – has another meaning.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The Ford Focus Electric, with its appealing, Euro-hatchback lines, lacks the frumpy feel of self-denial often associated with electric cars.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
Noun
  • Demands for fiscal austerity and higher interest rates as economies crashed didn’t age well.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Many pilgrims stay for the entire festival, observing austerity, giving alms and bathing at sunrise every day.
    Fox News, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This study showed that children who could wait for a larger reward instead of taking an immediate one—tended to have better academic performance, healthier habits and stronger self-discipline later in life.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The Catholic Church mandates abstinence from meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent as an act of sacrifice and self-discipline.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Sullivan was being held on charges of assault, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and reckless endangerment before she was released on Thursday after posting $300,000 bail.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Sullivan, a 56-year-old Connecticut woman, has been charged with assault, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, cruelty and reckless endangerment.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Middle-of-the-roadism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-of-the-roadism. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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