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  • When I first ran three miles, mildly impressed with my mediocre twenty-five-minute time, a terrifying senior drill instructor greeted me at the finish line: "If you're not puking, you're lazy!"  (source)
  • When Tommy Müller finished his mediocre attempt, she looked around the room.†  (source)
  • I got them right about eighty to ninety percent of the time, but I still got mediocre scores.†  (source)
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  • Even though I wasn't much of a bluffer, I'd sometimes win a hand because I was always getting excited by even mediocre cards, like a pair of fives, which made Brian and Lori think I'd been dealt aces.†  (source)
  • A triumph of the mediocres which is sweet to the majority.†  (source)
    mediocres = people who are average or a bit below average
  • He was in a pitiable condition, very weak, sharing the body of a mediocre wizard.†  (source)
  • The BBC had run a preliminary story yesterday to mediocre response.†  (source)
  • It was supposed to be a game between the two best teams in the state, but Rogers seemed mediocre.†  (source)
  • You see how the mediocre are smart enough to get away?†  (source)
  • After a humiliating wait while the brainiacs were tussled over by the best EduCompounds and the transcripts of the mediocre were fingered and skimmed and had coffee spilled on them and got dropped on the floor by mistake, Jimmy was knocked down at last to the Martha Graham Academy; and even that only after a long spell of lacklustre bidding.†  (source)
  • Really mediocre player, I don't mean to be snotty but she could hardly keep up with the section when we were kids and she's in the Cleveland Philharmonic now and it upsets me more than I would admit to just anyone.†  (source)
  • Although Owen had substantially improved my abilities as a student, he could do little to improve my mediocre college-board scores; I simply wasn't Harvard or Yale material.†  (source)
  • Then in the everyday, mediocre tone he used when he was proposing something really outrageous, he added, "Let's go to the beach.†  (source)
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