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mean as in:  the mean score

meaning too common or rare to warrant focus:

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  • I'm teaching her how to read because people in this town are so mean to her she couldn't even go to school.   (source)
    mean = common meaning
  • Roy didn't want to get Dana Matherson thrown in jail, because then Dana's mean and equally large friends might come after him.   (source)
  • "You mean to tell me," his father said, "that the Museum of Natural History has a skeleton that's wrong?†   (source)
  • I mean she was naive and unassuming, a grown-up and a child at the same time, plus she was a touch crazy.†   (source)
  • Now our plan to take over the world is — er, I mean, our plan to feed the children healthy, nutritional meals is underway!†   (source)
  • "I am at a loss to understand what you mean, my lord," I said, quite sincerely but with growing alarm.†   (source)
  • I mean, he had work stuff on there, but nothing that would have caused the collapse of Western civilization as we know it if the bad guys got hold of it.†   (source)
  • I mean, anytime he finds out a black person is with a white person, suddenly something's wrong with them.†   (source)
  • I thought of positive liberty, and of what it might mean to self-coerce, until my head thrummed with a dull ache.†   (source)
  • When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.†   (source)
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  • They both knew that bad luck could mean nothing more than dropping a pan of water or breaking an egg.†   (source)
  • I see the flow of liquids, pumping through the tubes, watch a wall of dials and lights that mean nothing to me.†   (source)
  • In fact, and I don't mean to brag here, but it kind of felt like everyone wanted to get close to me.†   (source)
  • We normally don't have monsoons in Swat and at first we were happy, thinking the rain would mean a good harvest.†   (source)
  • You mean the mayor ...you mean the mayor is ... At that moment, a little way down the hall, a door opened.†   (source)
  • To this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean every word they say.†   (source)
  • I mean, no offense to Ivan, but they're just blobs.†   (source)
  • When I first found out I was sick—I mean, they told me I had like an eighty-five percent chance of cure.†   (source)
  • Surveying the skies, I didn't see any sign of the Sixers, but that didn't mean they hadn't already arrived.†   (source)
  • He threw it into the basin and continued, "I mean, the rest of us know it doesn't make any difference at all.†   (source)
  • Besides, just because he found a lipstick container with K B on it, that didn't mean there was treasure buried there.†   (source)
  • Eventually it's going to want to be fed—and I don't exactly have the materials, if you know what I mean.†   (source)
  • When Mom told me I was so focused it was scary, I know she didn't mean it as a compliment, but I took it that way.†   (source)
  • I mean, at the pipeline camp where we worked, Pump Station 7, there were probably forty guys for every woman.†   (source)
  • A few miles of difference in latitude could mean a 180-degree difference in current direction, and no one knew where the plane had hit.†   (source)
  • "Well," Jonas went on, uncomfortably aware that he might be interrupting again, "I am really interested, I don't mean that I'm not.†   (source)
  • I didn't mean anything by it, but that was one of the last memories she had of me, and I wished I could take it back.†   (source)
  • No, that's not what I mean.†   (source)
  • Here, put your hands on the controls, your feet on the rudder pedals, and I'll show you what I mean.†   (source)
  • What do you mean his corpse is rotting on an Oriental rug, some kind of Persian rug, maybe a Chinese rug.†   (source)
  • I mean, there they are, already fertile, with housing and industry in place, and all the buggers dead.†   (source)
  • "Well, that don't mean nothin'," said T.J., jerking away from Stacey's grip and hopping to his feet.†   (source)
  • If this feller dies, you'll get the gallows, that's what you'll get, if that's what you mean by make out.†   (source)
  • Two-Bit couldn't deny this, so I went on: "I mean, I got an awful feeling something's gonna happen."†   (source)
  • He will tell them how to get into the city of Sakiel-Norn without any siege or loss of life, I mean their lives.†   (source)
  • "I just mean, if you don't feel up to it I could see if we could arrange an interpreter," Glen said.†   (source)
  • "I know what you mean," she might reply.†   (source)
  • I mean, yes, sure, I did have a crush on you at one point, before you and Margot ever started dating.†   (source)
  • Does that mean we get the whole chicken?†   (source)
  • Does this mean that you've also developed religious feelings for Trisolaris like the Redemptionists?†   (source)
  • I mean, he's sick, but he'll be okay," I answered, accepting the cup of tea, wrapping my hands around it.†   (source)
  • Just because you witnessed the Comet of 1812, does not mean that Sofia must wear a petticoat and bustle.†   (source)
  • I don't mean to suggest that my professor picked up the phone and told the judge he had to give me an interview.†   (source)
  • We—I mean my fellow officers and I—are in need of some entertainment, and as the weather is improving, we were thinking of a game of soccer.†   (source)
  • I didn't mean any harm, Jew.†   (source)
  • She said that half of it went over her head, and the other half she got, but didn't like, because it was so mean.†   (source)
  • When you came, I was hoping ...I mean— Athena can get along with just about anybody, except for Ares.†   (source)
  • His disappearance could mean only one thing.†   (source)
  • But if the situation or the context where you make the decisions don't change, then second chances don't mean too much, huh?†   (source)
  • I don't mean to fall asleep, but after a while, I do, and I wake up to Christina shaking my shoulder.†   (source)
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