Situated somewhere between two extremes or recognized categories; intermediate.
‘I am not unconscious, but in some in-between state’
‘I have an odd in-between situation where I work as an AmeriCorps volunteer.’
‘The stories that emerge are the different trains of thought your mind goes through as you're in that slightly in-between state of being awake and trying to get to sleep.’
‘In a quantum system, two opposite magnetic spins can be superposed upon each other, resulting in a third, in-between state.’
‘It is this in-between place of carelessness and thoughtlessness that disturbs.’
‘During all this while, he continued to hunt and trap in-between jobs.’
‘It's this in-between state of being neither child nor adolescent, or trying to be both at the same time.’
‘I think most of my problem is that I want to skip these in-between chapters and get to the stuff that I'm most looking forward to writing!’
‘You could see what he meant: Flintoff's chin and cheeks were stuck in that in-between stage that might be a look, but could equally well be neglect.’
‘If I refuse to choose sides, am I just marking time in some make-believe in-between space?’
‘This paper argues for the prevalence of in-between states of believing and asserts the need for an account of belief that allows us intelligibly to talk about in-between believing.’
average, standard, normal, middle-of-the-road, in-between, medium
noun
An intermediate thing.
‘successes, failures, and in-betweens’
‘But it has been a campaign of highs, lows and in-betweens - often in the course of games, never mind across them - and opening up a ten-point gap in the SPL and reaching the CIS Cup final means there has been plenty to be pleased about.’
‘Bad runs have been really bad runs and good ones have been really good - no in-betweens.’
‘It's a tough fusion of comedy's casual vibe and the more traditional elements of theatre - but Muse says that, like Bitty, she's at her best in those awkward in-betweens.’
‘Then came the in-betweens, made up of drivers over 25, whose hotly-contested race at times looked more like a demolition derby.’
‘From here, players can use the analog stick to aim the weapon low, middle, or high - but again, no in-betweens, which is disappointing.’
‘Unbending he deflects rage, loves her extremes, highs, lows, and in-betweens.’
‘It works because it allows for all the ups, downs, and in-betweens that you're going to have in a season.’
‘I love his wrongs, his rights, and his in-betweens.’
‘Iwan referred to the deity as beyond male or female, but understood the drives of both, as well as any conceivable in-betweens or genderless beings.’
‘The point was not to erect binaries or hierarchies but to appreciate difference, to focus on multiplicities and in-betweens.’
‘He ranged from sharp and witty to serious and in control, plus all the in-betweens.’
‘The more Zeigler immersed himself in the sources, the more he came to realise that everything was true - the extremes and all the in-betweens.’
‘Life is not about endings, but middles, the in-between.’
‘Neither a hotel nor private villa, it's a glorious in-between.’
‘It is the in-between which legitimates the one and the other, both of which are irreversibly atheological.’
‘I like an in-between that is flavorful, but not quite as dark as Guinness.’
‘You are for a yes vote or you are for a no, and there cannot be a grey area nor an in-between.’
‘Effectively, what both novels are really about is the cultural threat of miscegenation as the in-between.’
‘Lots of things can happen in the in-between that may be surprising.’
‘With muscles, the real stress of a lift is the in-between, basically about halfway up during a biceps movement.’
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