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  • noun Plural form of Midwesterner.

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Examples

  • He was labeled an elitist after calling Midwesterners embittered and trigger-happy.

    Alicia Lozano: Obama and the YouTube Curse 2008

  • People are, as my brother says, "Midwesterners," and that is enough explanation for why they are so curteous and helpful.

    MLA Chicago 2007 Denise 2007

  • While it seems the Midwesterners were the originators setting the trend for many of the new designs, it wasn’t long before the East and West Coast folks starting to weigh in.

    Hat Planet | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • My parents, both small-town Midwesterners, loved Franklin Roosevelt and Floyd B.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • My parents, both small-town Midwesterners, loved Franklin Roosevelt and Floyd B.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • My parents, both small-town Midwesterners, loved Franklin Roosevelt and Floyd B.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • And I went around for weeks afterwards telling everybody who would listen about it and spouting theories about what the poem proved about Iowans or Midwesterners or Christians in general --- I used to blog before there were blogs by shooting my mouth off a lot --- and otherwise proving my own spiritual and intellectual superiority.

    Happiness Shmappiness 2009

  • Skeptics which predominantly include frustrated Midwesterners, some business journalists and dismissive coastal venture capitalists have generally disregarded such optimistic economic proclamations as desperate political hand-waving and hopeful, yet hollow hype to win votes, mollify the economically depressed and justify their own existence.

    Jeff Bocan: Venture Capital Investing in Michigan -- Going Beyond Hand-Waving and Hopeful Hype Jeff Bocan 2011

  • Skeptics which predominantly include frustrated Midwesterners, some business journalists and dismissive coastal venture capitalists have generally disregarded such optimistic economic proclamations as desperate political hand-waving and hopeful, yet hollow hype to win votes, mollify the economically depressed and justify their own existence.

    Jeff Bocan: Venture Capital Investing in Michigan -- Going Beyond Hand-Waving and Hopeful Hype Jeff Bocan 2011

  • And I went around for weeks afterwards telling everybody who would listen about it and spouting theories about what the poem proved about Iowans or Midwesterners or Christians in general --- I used to blog before there were blogs by shooting my mouth off a lot --- and otherwise proving my own spiritual and intellectual superiority.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

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