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middle-of-the-roader

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  • noun Alternative spelling of middleoftheroader.

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Examples

  • Arthur, a middle-age middle-of-the-roader, studies bird flu as a scientist; at one point he can't sleep with Baya because he must perform a necropsy on suspect geese.

    Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Open mockery of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader.

    Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010

  • Or an ordinary, not-too-aligned, middle-of-the-roader who feels it is sensible not to dwell too much on the issue.

    Michael Wolff: The Ground Zero Mosque: What's It Mean to You? 2010

  • Open mockery of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader.

    Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010

  • The conservatives, one of the liberals and the middle-of-the-roader all agreed on basic figures and facts - they differed only on cause and effects.

    The Democrats and Rush Limbaugh: An intriguing symbiosis. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Im a middle-of-the-roader: I want to finish in a reasonable amount of time, but I dont like fusible stuff except for occasionally lining collars or as a base for buttons and unfinished seams make me hysterical.

    Instant Dress! - A Dress A Day 2009

  • Man, for a party that has only won the presidency with an extreme middle-of-the-roader like Clinton in the last THIRTY-TWO YEARS, we are certainly capable of some serious cockiness.

    MSNBC: Electoral Map Shifts Toward Obama 2009

  • Man, for a party that has only won the presidency with an extreme middle-of-the-roader like Clinton in the last THIRTY-TWO YEARS, we are certainly capable of some serious cockiness.

    MSNBC: Electoral Map Shifts Toward Obama 2009

  • To me, it is not surprising that some of the soft support appears to be gravitating to or back to McCain, now that it's clear McCain is the nominee and given that he's long been perceived as a middle-of-the-roader (a flawed perception, of course) and now that people are taking a longer and closer look at Obama.

    Poll: McCain Now Leading Obama Among Independents 2009

  • To me Obama is a bedrock moderate, a centrist and a middle-of-the-roader to the core, despite the way his candidacy is portrayed as a radical departure or a progressive breakthrough for democracy or a history-making step up for "minorities."

    Obama is too "eloquent" for McCain 2008

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