If they're good, they're good, and if they're mediocre, they're mediocre.
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He was a consistently mediocre starter, facing free agency, on a relentlessly mediocre roster.
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But a depressingly mediocre streamer who murders people... is still just a depressingly mediocre streamer.
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Like if somebody said, 'This girl's music is mediocre,' I was like, oh, I'm a mediocre human.
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I've got some mediocre books with great covers on my shelves, and some great books with mediocre covers.
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"There's plenty of room in the world for mediocre men, there's no room for mediocre woman," says Albright, 80.
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Perell would rather invest in a great team and a mediocre idea than a great idea with a mediocre team.
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And after having made mediocre movies, we would be rewarded with the opportunity to make even more mediocre movies, just as Hollywood continues to make enormous numbers of mediocre movies about white people, and specifically white men.
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Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days — which inevitably create a successful life — in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life.
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Presidents have in the past nominated candidates widely considered mediocre or brilliant, and the Senate has rejected both mediocre and brilliant nominees.
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If you make a committed decision while in a weak or mediocre frame of mind, you set yourself on a mediocre and lowly path.
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Singer allegedly exploited the admissions preference for athletes by turning mediocre high school students, through bribery and photo editing, into mediocre students with athletic promise.
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Don't be afraid to take calculated risks It's easy to get into a routine of working at a mediocre job and feeling mediocre about your life.
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And it made me, I think ... not studying at UCLA made me a mediocre banker, but I think drinking and alcohol made me a mediocre person.
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It's a mediocre rip-off of mediocre ideas, indifferently written, directed, and acted by people who all seem — for good reason — to wish they were somewhere else.
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While this year's Broncos features a dominant defence and a mediocre offence, the 2013 squad had a mediocre defence and the highest-scoring offence of the modern era.
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The Nationals, Pirates, Mets, and Dodgers all had mediocre weeks at a time in the season when mediocre weeks still have an outsized effect on the overall record.
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"Instead of being outrun by one fine turtle, you will be outrun by hordes and hordes of mediocre turtles and even by some mediocre turtles on crutches," he said.
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" - Katie, 35 "His mediocre band got too successful.
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A "dream" car can take you all the same places a mediocre car could, and a "dream" house is the same four walls and a roof that a mediocre house could provide.
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The economy might go from really good to really mediocre.
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So that's what I was shooting for: Better than mediocre.
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Especially if those five extra things are mediocre at best.
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A stable but recently mediocre economy has made them grouchy.
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If they're compelling, even mediocre marketing can often be successful.
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We love Asian salads but this new recipe is mediocre.
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Confident, mediocre men are in every office and every industry.
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And by all right I mean mediocre content and angst.
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Given the risks, Thales' return on the deal looks mediocre.
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What sets an unforgettable party apart from a mediocre party?
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"Duff doesn't want to do anything that's mediocre," Duddy said.
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But Mr Manning this season hasn't been mediocre this season.
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The government says the legislation targets offensive and mediocre content.
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Even a mediocre movie adaptation can't ruin enthusiasm for books.
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Meanwhile, lots of mediocre students thrive outside a scholastic environment.
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But the knowledge that Trump was a mediocre executive was
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Did I just describe the world's most mediocre sex scene?
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Outlook is an excellent email app but a mediocre calendar.
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Courts are corrupt and schools are mediocre, Mr Brener complains.
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The mediocre "Murder Mystery" was sunk by a bad script.
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"In America, you can't be a mediocre Muslim," she said.
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But almost always, these efforts have led to mediocre results.
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There's also LDE (little dick energy) or mediocre dick energy.
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Plenty of these productions, of course, are mediocre — or worse.
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But the machine generally rattles out mediocre fucking sugary shit.
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Overindulgence in entertainment will keep you in a mediocre life.
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"I've had mediocre years, I've had good years," Caruana said.
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Jason Alexander plays her mediocre lawyer and longtime friend, Barry.
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Suddenly what seemed like a great performance now feels mediocre.
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The better a restaurant's view, the more mediocre its food.
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Unlike the spies in most stories, Martin is largely mediocre.
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At the time, electronic viewfinders were mediocre, grainy and inferior.
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It's more compelling than the mediocre originals on Facebook Watch.
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Even mediocre condo developments offered gyms and elevators and doormen.
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Economic growth has been mediocre, and the gains unevenly distributed.
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For this reason, we need to remove these mediocre managers.
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Florida's workforce gets a mediocre grade, however, finishing No. 27.
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It's a lot harder to scroll away the mediocre stuff.
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The report identifies several reasons for the state's mediocre performance.
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"Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong," Clinton explained.
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You don't get to get that title by being mediocre.
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The latter, or something mediocre, is a lot more likely.
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How do you end up with a gangster like Trump, who's not just mediocre, but below mediocre — he's mendacious, he's narcissistic, he's racist, he's misogynist, and yet, he's the head of the American empire.
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In this formulation, "genre" is a pejorative adjective for any kind of mediocre writing rather than a designation for nonliterary styles, and can easily refer to mediocre fiction that happens to carry "literary" markers.
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But Tacoma is not just a jeremiad against a mediocre future.
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More than half its roads are in mediocre or poor condition.
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I opt for a chicken salad which is mediocre at best.
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Outdated Snapdragon Wear 2100 smartwatch and mediocre battery life are disappointing.
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And that is when we become mediocre and less than successful.
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In response to criticism that the judge was "mediocre," Republican Sen.
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Ron Swanson doesn't settle for mediocre liquors, and neither should you!
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And persuading investors to pay for mediocre research will be harder.
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Why is there an entire wall of fairly mediocre Milanese portraits?
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You deserve it after all those years of eating mediocre cake.
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No one's paying us to send you to some mediocre restaurant.
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It's very mediocre, but probably is good by Colorado BBQ standards.
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You must have all the confidence of a mediocre white man.
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It&aposs worth remembering just last quarter was a mediocre number.
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"Last year for me was a little mediocre," Mr. Acott said.
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And most of us don't want to have mediocre sex either.
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After yielding some mediocre bud, I had to go sell it.
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Reviews have moved the government into the 'mediocre' category, at best.
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The comic has made many very mediocre films and television shows.
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It was no more mediocre than the other sex we'd had.
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I don't believe anybody sets out to make a mediocre film.
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A mediocre rehash of every action movie you've ever seen ever.
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As a result, she said, growth rates worldwide could become mediocre.
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One colleague called it "perfectly mediocre," as she reached for more.
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It's an idea not likely to boost Warren's mediocre approval ratings.
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The offering, despite its investment, has mediocre content (quantity over quality).
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He was mediocre (a 4.86 earned run average) and too wild.
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The editorial presumes that teacher education programs are mediocre and underperforming.
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"2018 was mediocre by any standard," Hackett said in the email.
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The sound of Kenny's mediocre rapping brings me back to life.
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So I left a 24 star review bc it was mediocre.
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"A very private but mediocre experience will not win," he said,
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We'll take your five good innings over your seven mediocre innings.
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Here's what else is happening: Today will be mediocre at best.
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My grades were, for the first time in my life, mediocre.
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Being mediocre at playing the piano is exactly what I need.
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"I was a mediocre student," Seaver recalled on Veterans Day, Nov.
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A dreary list, a compendium of the mediocre and the overpraised.
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Instead, mediocre and even awful TV is often technically very good.
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In photos taken in broad daylight, the photos are pretty mediocre.
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Both are mediocre, but usually Coffee Bean is better than this.
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Rick is one of the most mediocre actors I've ever seen.
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Two vain, incompetent, mediocre charlatans are competing to become prime minister.
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That would be considered mediocre at best, considering the S.&P.
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You can reasonably justify activities and behaviors that are, frankly, mediocre.
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Yet, international test scores show that we get very mediocre results.
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Mediocre riders flourish on horses given up for the same reason.
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It's so easy to revert back to small and mediocre thinking.
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Even a mediocre 6-7 record hasn't gotten the team down.
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There are way too many bad, mediocre or me-too apps.
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And then they just make a bunch of mediocre magazine stuff.
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Man, the Jets have had mediocre goaltending for a long time.
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The shooting is mediocre, the driving is mediocre, and you fight the same set of boring, bland zombies who do nothing but run straight in a line and easily forget you exist for half the game.
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A mediocre movie about Asian-Americans will not kill careers or be seen as a failure of and for Asian-Americans, just as a mediocre movie by and about white people says nothing about white people.
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"You can have an endless number of mediocre and less than mediocre male rappers and they're not pitted against each other in that way," Treva Lindsey, a professor of gender studies at Ohio State University, said.
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But a lot of money is being earned by mediocre fund managers.
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Go ahead and attack me, but this guy was a mediocre bureaucrat.
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We look like a team that is firmly committed to being mediocre.
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Well, not the fact that Alec "Jack Donaghy" Baldwin's career is mediocre.
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He was a mediocre student in high school and he disliked physics.
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It has a mediocre screen, but what counts is on the inside.
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But pumpkin pie doesn't need to be so basic, so criminally mediocre.
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The food takes forever to come out, and it's all very mediocre.
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The world mostly knows IKEA for its flatpack furniture and mediocre meatballs.
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That will mean mediocre returns for investors—and happy days for consumers.
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Yes, there have been lots of them and many have been mediocre.
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Years of mediocre returns and high fees are coming home to roost.
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The country endures more mediocre leaders than it glories in great ones.
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I want to see more data because first quarter is very mediocre.
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When it's not, the game is just another mediocre cover-based shooter.
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It's unfortunate the webcam is mediocre and doesn't support Windows Hello, though.
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It picked up a mediocre $2149.7 million for a second place finish.
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The Internet is littered with pair after pair of mediocre Bluetooth headphones.
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Let's face it, there's a lot of mediocre Olympics merchandise out there.
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Even the most mediocre shows now borrow from the Twin Peaks playbook.
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The strongest impact they have is that of pushing out mediocre men.
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Our friends remembered the food and company, not the mediocre card game.
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Pros: Inexpensive, easy to set up, includes a subwooferCons: Mediocre audio quality
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An excellent email app — but a mediocre calendar I am not thrilled.
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But there are way too many bad, mediocre, or me-too apps.
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Mediocre growth prospects and risks of political instability are hindering fiscal consolidation.
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That has been tried and tried again with at best, mediocre results.
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By "mediocre," I am referring to the unremarkable or the seemingly mundane.
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These are two super average white people, just useless, mediocre white people.
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It's just that Paul Pierce's goodbye didn't have to be this mediocre.
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Certainly explains how we are getting YET ANOTHER GENERATION of mediocre zombies.
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Let's be real, a lot of mediocre rap floats around out there.
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There's millions of completely mediocre to terrible bands with dudes in them.
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It came from Asus, which has a mediocre track record with phones.
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But after two mediocre performances, he turned in an even, resonant debate.
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Red Light District – it's just tourists rubbernecking and mediocre-looking food stands.
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The danger might be a mediocre performance review or a poor reference.
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The only thing that really held it back was mediocre battery life.
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She regularly turned mediocre stocks into top-performing investments for Goldman Sachs.
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That bin you have for "Mediocre brushes" is even a bit poignant.
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Hillary Clinton has a reputation as a mediocre public speaker at best.
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It was sort of, 'Wow, this is incredible that some people can process these incredibly abstract concepts so gracefully'... So anyway, I realized that I was going to be a mediocre theoretical physicist... Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress.
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Una actuación mediocre era "cabaret" o "algo que se escucha en un crucero".
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Mr Corbyn has stood out in part because his team is so mediocre.
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If not, we will continue to be saddled with the kind of mediocre
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Fernandez is off to a mediocre start — 3-63 with a 4.28 ERA.
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I'm halfway into a mediocre meal with New York City's most prolific Yelper.
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Every great idea in history is the bastard child of two mediocre ideas.
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Knowing Tom, he'll want one perfectly cooked chicken dish over several mediocre plates.
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" That same year Eonline called the Prime Day "Basically a mediocre yard sale.
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But she already has influence on the mediocre reform programs she helped create.
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It's really mostly mediocre, but we all make do with what we have.
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But they're mediocre action plots (at best) when compared to their cinematic inspirations.
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Sorry, Kraus, but it doesn't sound like Lindsay's living just a "mediocre life."
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I'm talking about the mediocre white kids, the comfortable kids, the suburban kids.
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It's true what they say, you can't keep a mediocre smart assistant down.
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It manages to snag beloved stars, but then puts them into mediocre fare.
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His bulldog attitude and powerful speeches inspired after a succession of mediocre leaders.
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He is one of the most valuable assets on an otherwise mediocre roster.
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That nuance of distinct positioning and subtle detail is lost on mediocre headphones.
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Equally telling: Top-10 teams are a mediocre 16-12 in the series.
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It's this guy who's willing to admit he's a confident, mediocre white guy.
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Consumers generally regard Target's grocery section as being mediocre on pricing and selection.
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"Brilliant minds think alike—and also mediocre minds think alike," says Mr Litwak.
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For me, Polk is the stand-out in this run of mediocre presidents.
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Married off to a mediocre artist, she nevertheless set up her own studio.
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We're not talking about sad salads or mediocre ham and cheese sandwiches, either.
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A mediocre track record as carmakers need not be an obstacle in this.
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The U.S., meanwhile, was mediocre in its generosity, ranking 21st in honesty overall.
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But that strong opening is immediately followed by a bunch of mediocre shooting.
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Still, New Jersey's job growth was rather mediocre when compared to other states.
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" The Democratic National Committee's data, she said, "was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong.
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Virgin America's mediocre complaint rate was half as bad as American Airlines' (3.36).
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They might make it as mediocre artists in the field, but that's all.
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Another patron told Phillips that not everyone underwent even such a mediocre search.
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That suggests officials increasingly regard mediocre global economic growth as an enduring malaise.
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In lieu of one decent buffet meat, one could enjoy eight mediocre ones.
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Some were distasteful in the least cute way, and some were just mediocre.
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This restaurant took it way too far after someone left a mediocre review.
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Like Tinder, the mediocre ones start to look good compared to the disasters.
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I'm very excited to get back to being thoroughly mediocre in Rocket League.
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He's been better lately, but his overall results are still mediocre at best.
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The result is that successful salespeople are promoted — and turned into mediocre managers.
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While Mr. Saccone was a mediocre campaigner, Mr. Lamb was an excellent one.
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Trixie eventually triumphed in a mediocre lip sync that neither of them slayed.
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Those tend to be mediocre TV sets, or they sell out extremely quickly.
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Android users who want a smartwatch have to choose between several mediocre options.
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A mediocre teacher could see higher scores after getting a class of geniuses.
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Never mind that those outcomes are mediocre and limit the potential of individuals.
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Thus mediocre men continue to climb to the highest and most powerful ranks.
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It was a childhood favorite (and much better than the mediocre TV series).
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Most I.S.P.s charge you a monthly fee for a mediocre modem/router combo.
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Buybacks aren't just a tool used by struggling companies in a mediocre economy.
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While Vietjet's in-flight magazine was mediocre, its "Sky Shop" was downright fascinating.
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" Laura never liked Karl Rove, and calls John Irving "a modern, mediocre Dickens.
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Cons: Mediocre viewing angles, 60Hz panel rather than 120Hz, no AirPlay 2 support.
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That is: Trump's approval started off mediocre, in the mid-40s or so.
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Despite all the pitches and promises that each company has cracked the code for that dreamy device that can be all things to everyone, the result is always a niche product that's one part mediocre laptop and one part mediocre tablet.
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Golden interviewed administrators at Kushner's high school, who described him as a mediocre student.
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"I was a singer for 10 or 11 years to mediocre success," she said.
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Their supporters had abandoned all hope, resigning themselves to cheering for a mediocre team.
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If you are a mediocre designer, extraordinary status is near-to-impossible to prove.
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Maybe I'm delirious from the mediocre sleep, but I feel a rush of adrenaline.
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Yuri is a mediocre skater at best, painfully average when stacked against his competitors.
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But it has its faults: a visible crease, a creaky hinge, and mediocre cameras.
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Piven's show premiered on CBS on October 1 to mediocre ratings and disappointing reviews.
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"On average, we are average, not excellent, and typically we are mediocre," Peters concluded.
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Washington has been mediocre or bad since 2000, when the Huskies went 11-1.
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This is probably thanks, in part, to the Liberty+ earbuds having a mediocre microphone.
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It is Ananya Pandey who stands out among what is otherwise a mediocre cast.
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Tomb Raider follows a long line of great video games turned into mediocre movies.
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The Pixel Slate received largely mediocre reviews when it went on sale last year.
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Unfortunately, the ThinQ aspect of the G22 and its AI camera features are mediocre.
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ET. Click to enlarge So far, 2019 has been a mediocre year for Amazon.
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And even the stuff that's mediocre, right, is good enough to keep me engaged.
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Successful managers deserve decent rewards, but a lot of mediocre managers have prospered too.
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And no, the sloppy roll-out of a few mediocre features won't ruin Facebook.
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Netflix continues to push its offerings toward original content and potentially mediocre children's television.
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Even a poor bamboo shoot can separate a mediocre bowl from an exquisite one.
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Isner said he felt he might be poised to improve on a "mediocre" season.
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Why would you do any of this if you're just going to be mediocre?
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He predicts the newest results for financial firms will likely be "mediocre" at best.
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The 3D-printed prototype I tested today had glorious sound, but offered mediocre fit.
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The company also produced a preliminary forecast for 2018 that some viewed as mediocre.
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Out of the shadow emerge mediocre demons, and their desire for normality and positivity.
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Most important, great or mediocre, it's impossible to judge art that no one sees.
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Its shares are 32 percent through Thursday after three consecutive years of mediocre returns.
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Eventually, she left town, full of antipathy after what she considers a mediocre career.
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"We don't have any mediocre white men getting promoted over us," one points out.
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Anyone who works in the real, mediocre world knows that is not the case.
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Indeed, when the book came out, reviewers sniffed, and sales were mediocre at best.
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The stuff of Penthouse Forum (remember that, fellow 30-somethings?), or mediocre porn series.
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The officiating this year has been, for the most part, mediocre, in my opinion.
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They are the candy you eat when you want to have a mediocre time.
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You can't tolerate mediocre activities or behaviors for long without them bringing you down.
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Expectations were high that they would significantly improve on their mediocre 22010-win season.
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And I also want to see if the shower can elevate already mediocre foods.
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Fisher's grades and test scores were mediocre compared to those of the incoming class.
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And getting that right is what makes it art or what makes it mediocre.
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Conversely, mediocre whites ought to be served ice-cold; the temperature masks any flaws.
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"I grew up in the same neighborhood, attended the same mediocre schools," she said.
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As a recent college graduate with mediocre grades, that didn't surprise me at all.
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A jarring two-thirds of the state's roads are in mediocre condition or worse.
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Hell, any mediocre salesperson, even when they're hawking complete crap, can get lucky once.
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Many people think that a mediocre partner is better than no partner at all.
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The experience raised a natural question: Are big-production wines necessarily mediocre at best?
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Were it a perfectly-made mediocre film, we would not be having this conversation.
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She was a single mom and a miserable, mediocre associate at a law firm.
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Upon charges that he was a "mediocre" nominee in terms of professional qualifications, Sen.
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They exploited Texas A&M's mediocre quarterback and Tennessee's weak constitution and Arkansas' forgiving defense.
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The Panthers' offense is as dynamic and exciting as the Broncos' is staid and mediocre.
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BoomStick: The $279 device is basically a clicker to boost your mediocre headphones or earbuds.
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BoomStick: The $99 device is basically a clicker to boost your mediocre headphones or earbuds.
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And the running joke around my house is that I'm a mediocre mother – at best.
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Having a zoom lens on your phone turns a mediocre picture into something exciting...sometimes.
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Many Black girls will tell you — there are a lot of mediocre sunscreens out there.
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Notably, "Phoenix" shares a weakness with that most recent film -- namely, an utterly mediocre villain.
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For the past few years, Simone Giertz has been building an army of mediocre machines.
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It's one filled with the terrible, the amazing, the overly mediocre, and everything in between.
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If Rainbow were bad, or even mediocre, it would feel like one more collective trauma.
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Kit is also a columnist for Time and Money and a mediocre but enthusiastic golfer.
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Software updates have improved the picture quality, but all three are still kind of mediocre.
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"A 5% return on a venture fund would be considered mediocre at best," Siegel said.
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City paid £55m for Kevin de Bruyne, a midfielder for Wolfsburg, a mediocre German team.
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Since GDP is the tax base, Britain's mediocre growth prospects spell trouble for the Treasury.
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"I was a singer for 10 or 11 years to mediocre success," Sia tells Corden.
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I was very shy and a mediocre-looking blonde from a farming town in Michigan.
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Another mediocre week and you could see the Royals in this space next Monday. 4.
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"I was a singer for 10 or 11 years to mediocre success," she told him.
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Apple shares have had a mediocre year, but rebounded nicely following an impressive earnings report.
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Early examples were mediocre, and developers lacked the tools to optimize the experiences they built.
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Past the mediocre sound, there's really nothing not to like about the new Echo Dot.
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They've been mediocre since November and worse than that over the last month or so.
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Tenson is specifically looking for skiers who are "enthusiastic yet mediocre" to test the gear.
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You'll have to excuse me, I have to go weep into my overpriced mediocre pizza.
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Wright elevates mediocre work, and when a script matches his talent, he's magical to watch.
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New Jersey Devils (10 points) The playoff setup is murdering mediocre teams in the East.
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But aside from the mediocre cameras, the phone performs quite decently, especially for the price.
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The Wizard of Lies is a movie with a terrible name and some mediocre aspects.
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A mediocre Russian version (with a great score by Alfred Schnittke) was released in 1972.
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The future: The Braves are atrocious, the Falcons are mediocre, and the Thrashers left town.
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With a short winning streak — just a tick above mediocre — they could feel like contenders.
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After finishing a vocational high school degree, he was accepted into a mediocre business school.
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The PG-rated movie, which received mediocre reviews, has generated an additional $111 million overseas.
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The answer is living with the "confidence of a mediocre white guy" for a day.
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Our tech critic says it's relatively mediocre, but at least it won't burst into flames.
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Executives say there are simply too many restaurants, and a lot of them are mediocre.
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The dialogue is theatrical, the acting mediocre and less said about the screenplay, the better.
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So if you're a mediocre or even a bad boss, you can work on that.
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We head to a little bakery place and I get a mediocre salad and cookie.
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Cool Shit: Weird and exciting places with amazing atmospheres, and mediocre environments with incredible food.
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Gasoline demand remains mediocre as refiners continue to crank out more fuel, he told CNBC.
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Still, there is a lot of mediocre Thai food in the Bay Area, and beyond.
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While translators cannot turn bad books into great ones, they can make good books mediocre.
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I wanted to recreate a good conversation we had at a mediocre Irish bar recently.
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Samsung's report Sunday night was a mediocre attempt at reassuring its products will be safe.
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An excellent movie would be great, but a mediocre one will be no big deal.
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Then they won two games, against the mediocre San Francisco 28ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Tall and kind with thick forearms, honed from playing drums in a mediocre rock band.
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Despite Bernstein's mediocre outlook, Tesla shares rose 7% in Tuesday trading to close at $547.20.
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Simply put, Biden's campaign thinks he can survive a mediocre showing in the early states.
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If, as now seems likely, economic performance is mediocre at best, he's in deep trouble.
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He predicted, however, that Mr. Dukakis would be a mediocre candidate in the general election.
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After a mediocre start to his Kansas City career, Cerv broke out in 245, batting .
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But Apple Maps was laughably bad in 2012, and it's still pretty mediocre in 2019.
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They've got really high health-care costs, and their job prospects are mediocre at best.
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Mediocre economic growth over the past quarter-century contributed decisively to Mr. López Obrador's election.
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" She invited everyone to a reception with, she promised, "mediocre wine and so-so snacks.
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There's a bigger danger lurking in U.S. airports than mediocre meals: public Wi-Fi networks.
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Nintendo Switch has its flaws, including a relatively mediocre experience as a mobile gaming machine.
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Between tepid shooting and mediocre sharing, you'd expect Chicago's offense to be much, much worse.
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Their employers had relied on booking packages of films, mixing mediocre items with star vehicles.
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Wow me with a solid social media platform and a mediocre grasp of the Bible.
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JG: I say, I never underestimate the reliance on hacky jokes by mediocre white guys.
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But you don't have to settle for yet another mediocre date over over expensive drinks.
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"What's holding the Republicans back is that output growth is kind of mediocre," Fair said.
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I give Howard credit for producing at Indiana behind a mediocre line playing against better teams.
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Trump has emphasized the importance of breaking the mediocre growth trend since the financial crisis ended.
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Or they get a lot of education, fall into debt, and then get a mediocre job.
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This might sound a bit mediocre, but they're owning some really great melodies...and they're fast.
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"Even though Christian Grey is kind of mediocre, Christian Black is actually a little bit worse."
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Beck isn't the first mediocre white woman to take up more screen time than she deserves.
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The film was largely panned with it holding a mediocre 24% on review site Rotten Tomatoes.
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Mr. Buffett is correct: there are far too many mediocre and expensive funds that shortchange investors.
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And I knew I wouldn't be great, but I knew I could be better than mediocre.
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However, like almost all gaming machines, the GS65 still has one big shortfall: mediocre battery life.
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Sadly, almost everything else about the phone is pretty mediocre, even for a $200 budget phone.
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As often is the case with Macklemore's music, the biggest problem here is his mediocre talent.
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Or is this just another case of a mediocre white male being promoted beyond his competence?
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But our rankings are mediocre-to-poor in categories measuring health, financial security and income inequality.
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We think that even mediocre data would be enough for the Fed to hike in September.
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A terrific name won't save a terrible car, while a great car might overcome mediocre badging.
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Weatherspoon's isn't the only villain, but British boozers are so much better than their mediocre ambitions.
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If they are growing in number it is because (with exceptions) many other politicians are mediocre.
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And the Keating Five, despite being mediocre students, are quick to rub things in his face.
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Yet a 20% advantage over a mediocre keeper makes little difference to an already frugal defence.
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Cobb is 7-6 with a 3.75 ERA in 18 starts, what look like mediocre numbers.
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" She explains that when something is bad, not camp, it was "too mediocre in its ambition.
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"Too many people write their own stuff, and a lot of times it's mediocre," Womack says.
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There isn't a mediocre option in the bunch, so rest assured you'll leave feeling fully satisfied.
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Whether or not these individuals were as mediocre as some critics claim is beside the point.
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It's how you end up with conventions full of mediocre Samsung Gear VR movie tie-ins.
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And it did not seem to matter whether they had good teams, mediocre teams, bad teams.
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The one potential downside is that I found the EOS RP's battery to be relatively mediocre.
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Third, Mr Trump's performance has been mediocre compared with the stockmarket and property in New York.
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No chasing down the ice cream truck for a mediocre Chipwich for you and your crew.
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Still, Raisi's run has been "mediocre at best" and the candidate lacks charisma, according to Kupchan.
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Some prefer salaries to reflect merit rather than seniority, for example, or oppose "protecting mediocre teachers".
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On Sunday, the Pats defense had little trouble clamping down on a mediocre Denver Broncos offense.
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Because Sam Smith is a boring, mediocre, dull, middle of the road cringeworthy crooning sad sack.
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The Padres have been the Padres, and the aged, mediocre Giants have been difficult to parse.
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Yet its size has created ailments, including poor merger-and-acquisition activity and mediocre shareholder returns.
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It involved: mediocre basketball skills, perfect SAT scores, and the fact that he went to Harvard.
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Nikki Swango, a true American bad ass, died so that a mediocre white man could live.
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Karyn Bondarenko is a Minnesota cousin conducting a mediocre affair with a systems consultant named Paul.
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Any mediocre performance from the communications sector could have consequences for the broader S&P 500.
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Despite Osweiler's poor numbers, the team leads the mediocre A.F.C. South with a 4-3 record.
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Numberplay "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds," wrote Albert Einstein in 1940.
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Closet indexing can hurt investors because they are paying higher fees for mediocre performance, Cremers said.
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It didn't help that, by Hickenlooper's own admission, he's a mediocre debater and erratic public speaker.
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"There is contemporary fine art and those who are good, no good or mediocre at it."
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"In My Defense" has been described as "exhausted" (All Music), "unconvincing" (Clash), and "offensively mediocre" (HipHopDX).
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With all the job boards out there, finding candidates with mediocre fit has never been easier.
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If polling these days is an art, there are a lot of mediocre or bad artists.
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A mediocre band playing Bowie and Prince ("Purple Rain," natch) provided a soundtrack for drunken dancing.
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It's unclear if this is a sign that the developers were mediocre or malicious, Evans wrote.
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The pasta fills me up, but it's mediocre at best, as I'm out of Parmesan cheese.
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After a few mediocre jokes, Trump's speech veered into political rhetoric territory, and the audience booed.
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Hobble down to your local mediocre supermarket and grab a shrimp cocktail, sauce packet and all.
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There's a real overabundance of mediocre bands, in my opinion, and that's one of the downsides.
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Competitors may invest in the same regions, leading to a lower uptake and more mediocre returns.
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Some of it is seductive, some of it is accomplished, and some is mediocre or worse.
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They show us people who are mediocre — as most people seem to be — yet nevertheless interesting.
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He is not confined solely to house party kitchens, mediocre bars, BBC sitcoms, or dating apps.
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Margins here are mediocre but should improve as content-production costs are spread over more users.
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La empresa tuvo un desempeño mediocre en sus primeros dos días en el mercado de valores.
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Whoever described politics as the art of the possible was reducing politics to a mediocre trade.
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By wine producers, I don't mean fly-by-nights seizing marketing opportunities to promote mediocre bottles.
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The real test of narrative plenitude is when we have the luxury of making mediocre movies.
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Even if you love sushi, you'd probably prefer excellent French food over a mediocre California roll.
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A commercial success, "Son of Frankenstein" jump-started a new, mediocre cycle of Universal horror films.
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Year after year, this team offers a near-seamless combination of mediocre ownership and poor leadership.
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The Warriors had looked mediocre at the end of the regular season, finishing up 7-10.
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The hours are long, the pay mediocre, the risk of calamity never quite over the horizon.
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The message for our nation's leaders is simple: we cannot afford another decade of mediocre growth.
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Then she followed all of that up with a mediocre performance in the November 20 debate.
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America spends far more than other countries on treating or preventing ailments, yet with mediocre outcomes.
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Despite my love of books, I felt no motivation to succeed and was a mediocre student.
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The one misstep, from a hardware perspective, is the mediocre game pad included with the Switch.
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Like, there's a lot of like mediocre user-generated content, that's not what I'm talking about.
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At the time, we pointed out that the actual hardware was mediocre, including the built-in speakers.
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"The mediocre employment report from the Labor Department just amplified the reaction of anything employment-sensitive today."
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Even when he's in a mediocre movie (and he often is), LaBeouf is a magnetic onscreen presence.
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Here, read what wedding night sex is really like — the sexy, the mediocre, and the accidentally hilarious.
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They have dinner, fall in love, spend hours and hours appreciating and critiquing each other's mediocre work.
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My one concern is Spectre's battery life, as longevity on the previous model was mediocre at best.
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Otherwise, good luck—you'll need it, because with mediocre recruiting classes, you'll be trying to make history.
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You're looking at high-quality companies whose share prices have been mediocre for extended periods of time.
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Despite what on paper seems a mediocre finish, he was beaming, and already had his silver lining.
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Economic growth has been extremely mediocre over the last 25 years (about 1.2 percent per capita yearly).
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"My thesis might be mediocre, it might not be scholarly enough, but it's completely honest," said Zakharova.
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As gold prices rose in the 2000s, many firms went on a spree, snapping up mediocre mines.
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I had fantastic, terrible, mediocre, and strange sex with boys I either cared nothing for or adored.
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Despite mediocre-ish performances, Biden has, generally speaking, not suffered greatly in the media after-action reports.
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It then goes completely airborne, spinning 180 degrees like Roger Moore's car in that mediocre Bond movie.
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Then, two days after Mr Schulz's speech, the SPD returned a mediocre result in the Saarland election.
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I've never understood why the line is always so dang long for those mediocre ultra-sweet cupcakes.
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It was frustratingly mediocre, and in the year since, BioWare has done precious to change that feeling.
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They have mediocre talents and superb talents, and they are complicated just like the rest of us.
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Nor have tie-ins with the "Captain America" and "Avengers" films appreciably goosed those shows' mediocre ratings.
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After four mediocre tournaments, McIlroy recaptured his old brilliance at the Arnold Palmer Invitational two weeks ago.
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Even Kraus himself coldly told her to enjoy her "mediocre life" with Abasolo, a chiropractor from Miami.
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After that, mediocre performance would corrode morale and upset external shareholders, who own 90% of the bank.
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But with a $300k price tag and a mediocre review, Post knew he had to do better.
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The 10-year auction followed mediocre demand for $34 billion worth of 3-year debt on Tuesday.
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Under the outgoing president, Enrique Peña Nieto, they suffer rampant crime and corruption, and mediocre economic growth.
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"Guys pulled through for me when I was probably pretty mediocre," Sale said of the big inning.
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Racism, oppression, poverty, mediocre housing — these issues cause too many children to fall short of their potential.
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Bond yields retreated from their session highs even after a mediocre $19 billion 30-year bond auction.
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"We will make a conclusion and indicate whether the news is terrible, mediocre, or great," he said.
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" — Nick "Mediocre at Best" Ross (@NickBossRoss) September 16, 2016 Fallon interviewing Hitler: "Let's talk about your book!
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When your shooting percentages resemble those of mediocre three-point shooters in the NBA, regression is inevitable.
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Similarly, I bet you've met some strangers with good personalities and still had mediocre sex with them.
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The food is mediocre and the service is slow, but it's happy hour and there are quesadillas.
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I asked myself how he was able to record in a space that small with mediocre acoustics.
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Someone with such a consistently mediocre Twitter presence and bland political persona typically doesn't produce good content.
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The 5-foot-9 Mikita was just 18 when he joined a mediocre Blackhawks franchise in 1959.
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After all, it's fake, mediocre, and it's only fun if you aren't into being confronted with reality.
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I knew Trump was a sexist creep, but I didn't know he was also a mediocre one.
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Several hackers have targeted the sketchy industry of consumer spyware, exposing their mediocre security and questionable ethics.
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Since 1945 most countries' spurts of success have been followed by periods of mediocre growth or worse.
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Warren E. Buffett blasted their high fees and mediocre performance at his recent investors' conference in Omaha.
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In any case, the statement chronicling his admissions reads like a treatment for a mediocre political thriller.
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So much for celebrating women tonight, but you're going to continue giving these awards to mediocre men.
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That clearly is economics — particularly millennial college graduates who are stuck with student loans and mediocre jobs.
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Comentario El problema de la violencia en México y el de su crecimiento económico mediocre están relacionados.
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Even mediocre figs turn into glistening, jammy puddles after a brief stint in a very hot oven.
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" The Mirror "There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and mediocre England displays in major tournaments.
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Weird -- some Russian lady just held up a makeshift scorecard and gave a mediocre kid a 10.
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For Blizzard to use those experiences as a throwaway justification for their mediocre costume is an insult.
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B is munching on a ham and cheese sandwich ($103) and I steal a few mediocre bites.
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Meaning, he's had a hand in some of the most mediocre pop records in the last century.
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He gave Iachini one chance, a home match against a mediocre Chievo team, to save his job.
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Do the Brooklyn Nets think they can take him on as a tolerable-risk, mediocre-upside acquisition?
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It's like when you get out of a relationship and your first new fuck is just mediocre.
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Coach and Quarterback Confidence Rating: 5/10 Derek Carr's rookie season was safe, with pretty mediocre results.
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By EDM, I mean all the cannons and fireworks and mediocre music that accompanies the special effects.
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For example, one process platform may be excellent for processors, but just mediocre for embedded flash memory.
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Here in New York, we sit and watch a bunch of mediocre football teams fight to reach .
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A developer of mostly mediocre properties who made a small fortune (very small) with his daddy's money.
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This admirer — and practitioner — of magic and illusion in art pleads for bland, mediocre reality in politics.
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Yet a funny thing keeps happening to this unstoppable winning machine: They keep losing to mediocre teams.
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But Clinton can get away with some mediocre showings in late primaries and still win the nomination.
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Cons: While there are six different dining spots to choose from, the on-site food is mediocre.
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Because, at present, as judged by their record, the Cowboys are hardly even mediocre — they're below average.
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Tolerating mediocre performance from even a few people can lower the bar for your business, Schultz said.
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The Papa John's wings were good, but everything else was either mediocre or deemed not worth ordering.
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How much these tactics help solve mediocre rich kids' SAT woes is a matter of staunch debate.
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At worst, it is a cynical charade of mediocre athletes playacting as tennis pros, vulnerable to corruption.
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"'Italian' food was, even in some of the better restaurants, mediocre, to put it mildly," she wrote.
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"'Italian' food was, even in some of the better restaurants, mediocre, to put it mildly," she wrote.
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HTC also sells the mediocre $699 Vive Cosmos, which is meant for gaming and other home use.
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Ms. Pierson sees Varian's mediocre postelection performance as "an opportunity for us to add to our position."
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We visited mediocre places — one after the other — all of which were earning bids with no trouble.
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We can't be mediocre and get away with just putting in some masala like we did before.
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"The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants" is much funnier — and better — than its mediocre name would suggest.
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In a soupy sea of mediocre suiting and sportswear, he offers something entirely different from other designers.
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"There was a dilution of quality, and he also had a lot mediocre impostors," Mr. Ilchman said.
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Critics worry that a standardized world is dull and mediocre, a nightmare of conformity and Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
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After two more mediocre seasons and a severe shoulder injury, he was released by the Blue Jays.
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The augmented reality demo itself was really mediocre, and much less impressive than any decently made ARKit game.
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As it stands, I get to watch a mediocre product and feel obliged to defend Hawk Harrelson's value.
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The ma po tofu was mediocre—dry and unspicy, a horrible bastardization of a Szechuan dish I love.
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It's filled with teenage angst, not far-fetched for the 17-year-old, but less than mediocre bars.
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She can call you an Uber, order you a mediocre pizza, or turn your smartshoes on and off.
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Tech firms have been eyeing the vast and growing medical market for a while, with mostly mediocre results.
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And, for this fake memoir, it's a combination of Noah's purple prose applied to a really mediocre person.
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Those three superheroes could super-size the show's ratings, which need a boost after last year's mediocre outing.
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The second G6, however, was so damn impressive that it made me hate the Pixel's mediocre sound output.
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A lot of line-waiting and mediocre food and outrageous prices and who cares, we're doing it anyway?
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With normally mediocre sales, Kroc cannot believe it when an unsolicited order for six milkshake mixers comes in.
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"In the words of Albert Einstein, great spirits are sometimes met by the violent opposition of mediocre minds."
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If it's any comfort to Miranda or his fans, he's not the only victim of Returns' mediocre songwriting.
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He had had winners with his stock picks, but when it came to bonds, the results were mediocre.
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I make it until 10:30, when the mediocre alcohol hits me, and I start to get sleepy.
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This isn't LG's first foray into VR, and its last attempt — the mobile LG 360 VR — was mediocre.
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It means that sex at its very worst is mediocre and lacking connection, rather than traumatizing or scary.
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The resulting pattern can be strong performance in the early years, but a more mediocre result later on.
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The latest generation of teachers entered their classrooms with student debt, mediocre health care, and diminished job prospects.
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The rule was meant to encourage clubs to develop local talent instead of relying on mediocre foreign players.
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Entering a Friday matchup at Honda Center, the teams are playing mediocre hockey and struggling to find consistency.
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But that's how it was supposed to work for Jose Bautista, who had a definitively mediocre .240/.329/.
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Even with those claims of overpriced food that's mediocre at best, Nusr-Et Steakhouse seems pretty successful worldwide.
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But, contrary to the thrust of your article ("Smoke and dust", June 203th), he was a mediocre novelist.
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Minds are also turning to the chancellor's departure, which may have been brought forward by the mediocre result.
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Meanwhile, the bank is grappling with three problems: mediocre profitability, unconvincing capital allocation and a tricky management succession.
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"I'd rather own the best than a mix of the best, the mediocre, and the worst," he said.
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I was craving sushi but I really regret ordering it because, as expected, Seamless sushi is incredibly mediocre.
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Black women are not political mules to be used every time a mediocre white candidate needs to win.
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Over 70 percent of the city's streets are in poor or mediocre shape, according to a recent report.
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And it would have been a killer phone for the money, if only its cameras weren't so mediocre.
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Clayton Kershaw was upbeat Thursday night despite producing a mediocre pitching line during a minor league rehab start.
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Not much, just a mediocre mix of mutual funds and quarterly rebalancing, with no broader plan for retirement.
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Most employers would willingly pay a premium to reduce the risk of bad hires, or even mediocre hires.
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"When in doubt, think like a mediocre white man," the sex-toy mogul, Ti Chang, encouraged the audience.
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This is why Jake Gyllenhaal is the best actor alive and I'm just a blogger and mediocre seamstress.
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Starchy and monotone, Mr Corbyn's public speaking has improved in recent months, but only from terrible to mediocre.
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The sound quality of the Tap's Dolby-powered, omnidirectional speakers is mediocre, at best, for listening to music.
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The only truly effective way to combat match-fixing by mediocre players is with a two-pronged approach.
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Neither can WWE just stick the title on one of their mediocre favorites from yesteryear, like Randy Orton.
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A pre-Napster but less successful, less mediocre, so it started and failed more quickly than Napster did.
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Kevin Hart has become a Hollywood punchline for his willingness to appear in multiple mediocre comedies each year.
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Or just watch them boogie in the video above and marvel at how mediocre the future really is.
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She won a silver medal at the London games in 2012, but her time, 1:993, was mediocre.
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Much of that enthusiasm was diminished, however, by the Pixel's industrial design: it's pedestrian, unexciting, and frankly mediocre.
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As great and cross-platform as Skype is, the mobile experience (in my opinion) has always been mediocre.
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Higher loan loss provisions not only eat into earnings, but may also suggest mediocre debtors or poor credit.
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You can only change them from the Fitbit mobile app, and the selection of watch faces are mediocre.
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These tips can help you avoid a mediocre experience with Airbnb so you can achieve true vacation nirvana.
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She is a hypocritical, ungrateful, spoiled, mediocre journalist with lame taste in men and bad taste in books.
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Six years earlier, in 2007, the Denver Broncos suffered through an equally mediocre season under coach Mike Shanahan.
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The four teams they have lost to have a mediocre 43-24 mark against teams not named Browns.
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He will face a mediocre Rams run defense that yielded three touchdowns to 49ers backs in Week 1.
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While the Giants were expected to be a solid winning team, Baltimore was expected to be thoroughly mediocre.
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He stumbled sometimes, but overall was sharper than his mediocre performance in the first debate a month ago.
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The sad reality is that people of good will are not helped by a significantly mediocre political establishment.
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The new administration will face rampant inequality and persistent poverty, decaying infrastructure, and mediocre and segregated public education.
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Costing at least $45 million to make, "War Dogs," which received mediocre reviews, collected an estimated $14.3 million.
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Reviews for the thriller "Body of Lies" (2008) were decidedly mediocre, with several critics slamming the film's plot.
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We're supposed to call out the mediocre racist hosts, the cheesy intro videos and the narcissistic acceptance speeches.
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Like me, Post Malone is a fairly mediocre guy who happened to get a bunch of Twitter followers.
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Civility in politics is extremely overrated and mostly a means for obstructing progress, but civility among mediocre passers?
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I've seen terrific management teams that fundraise poorly and mediocre operating teams that are brilliant at capital formation.
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MVP odds: 15/1Why he could win: Dak Prescott's performances this year have ranged from mediocre to brilliant.
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At mature companies that are struggling to generate growth, boards are showing less patience with mediocre chief executives.
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We often use frozen vegetables, especially in the winter when fresh vegetables are mediocre or out of season.
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Some are mediocre, and some are sweet pink confections like the white zinfandels of the 1970s and '80s.
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There is, honestly, plenty of mediocre work to skip, but also enough good stuff to reward a visit.
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The fact that I think both of them are mediocre despite being famous made me feel even worse.
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The influence of hip-hop was now so pervasive, it spawned a parade of mediocre rap-rock bands.
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Georgia's offense will be one-dimensional, and it met a mediocre North Carolina defense at their own level.
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But he suggested that Mr. Golunov was a mediocre journalist and said he would receive a fair trial.
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Your options range from greasy sandwich shops to cafes that serve the same mediocre pasta dishes and pizzas.
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Not because its seventh season wasn't its strongest or because of its pretty damn mediocre season seven finale.
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Expectations aren't high for the former vice president after a series of mediocre debate performances during primary season.
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It has its moments, but the poor villains and inconsistent action quality results in a mediocre movie. pic.twitter.
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Mozart's great comedy returns to the Met, in the relatively recent, if rather mediocre, production by Richard Eyre.
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He has propped up an otherwise mediocre rotation, and, at 28, he is looking more and more impressive.
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He was replaced by Ryan Tannehill, who had signed as a backup after seven mediocre seasons in Miami.
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The mediocre results missed Wall Street expectations and Pfizer lowered the top end of its 2016 profit forecast.
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But as someone who spent three summers at camp and many more at mediocre corporate retreats, I'm appalled.
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You'll have a whole bunch of people who are mediocre that have jobs, and spending [the company's] money.
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What if you decline motherhood in favor of your art, and your art turns out to be mediocre?
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Peter implored Rachel to choose a reasonably paced dating relationship with him over a "mediocre life" with Bryan.
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Commodities got cheaper through much of the second quarter, adding to several years of mediocre-to-weak performance.
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During the first day, which was hot and sunny, the article was shaping up to be pretty mediocre.
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One hit movie, two mediocre comedies, a swanky New York condo, a $250 million yacht and a Picasso.
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" He said Huawei needs to reward high performers while removing "mediocre managers" who "have lost their enterprising spirit.
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Cubs LH Jon Lester (217-23, 230) Chatwood has shown moments of brilliance during a mostly mediocre campaign.
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Traveling can be bad enough, but rude people can turn even a mediocre flight into an absolute nightmare.
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"The 2-year note auction was very mediocre," said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group.
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The A.C.C. is a collection of mediocre teams, and most likely will not produce a Final Four team.
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It was absurd, particularly for a player who was only 6-foot-30.73 and surrounded by mediocre shooters.
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Now, with a 9-413 record and mediocre performances in the final three games, that is in question.
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Specifically, the researchers focused on what factors differentiated the best musicians from the good or the mediocre ones.
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Enter regulation, the best-of-a-set-of-mediocre-alternatives to our consumerist death pact with big business.
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Everything about it, however, smacks of an old-fashioned TV movie, and a pretty mediocre one at that.
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A lower-stakes example from my own experience: the ballad of Ted Cruz and the mediocre Chinese food.
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The problem isn't that mediocre prosecutors get rewarded with federal judgeships, much less slots on the Supreme Court.
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What's more, much mediocre work from the past has slipped into oblivion, creating a kind of hindsight bias.
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Oddly specific prediction: The Sharks look mediocre by midseason, putting Joe Thornton firmly in the trade deadline spotlight.
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"You produce cars in the United States at such a high price and such a mediocre, mediocre quality that you cannot compete, you cannot compete manufacturing in the United States," Fox asserted in a contentious interview after the Twitter war erupted between President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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Of all of the black folks who have met with Trump to date — the ones that Morehouse College professor and fellow political commentator Marc Lamont Hill called "Mediocre Negroes," warts and all — neither Brown nor Harvey have been "mediocre" with respect to the issue of ameliorating conditions for lower-income blacks.
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There's nothing more disappointing in the genre than a great idea that ends up buried under a mediocre story.
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It does a mediocre job of carrying coins, and you can't stuff dozens of hundred-dollar bills inside it.
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The loudspeaker is mediocre, and when you plug in headphones, the Pixel's headphone audio is even more painfully underwhelming.
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One was an actor, the other a sort of mediocre bureaucrat who wasn't made for anything above party chair.
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Suddenly, a lot of those earlier issues like mediocre battery life and no wireless charging aren't nearly as annoying.
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Payment processing businesses typically boast mediocre profit margins, but those margins can grow as a company processes more transactions.
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We walk a couple of blocks to a sushi restaurant that has mediocre food but an excellent happy hour.
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This is far from the mediocre neighborhood Thai place you get delivery from—it's flavor, flavor, and more flavor.
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Eight years ago, Game of Thrones began as a story about a mediocre man sitting on the Iron Throne.
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The sports equivalent of that thing political pundits do when a bad politician finally does something good or mediocre.
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The OnePlus 220T's Achilles' heel is its mediocre camera, and the Honor View 220 sidles up right alongside it.
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RB: I think part of the urge to talk is the result of a clever idea with mediocre execution.
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Thankfully, this doesn't affect battery life too much: it's already as mediocre as it can be for an ultrabook.
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Where Tango's custom hardware requirements have left it languishing on mediocre smartphones, ARCore is less powerful but more accessible.
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So, he seems to be doing fine with his mediocre skills and less than one year of formal training.
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What I found was a mediocre film with more tension than scares and no real payoff at the end.
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From its trailer, Love, Simon appears to ask, Don't gay teens deserve the same mediocre movies straight teens get?
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There is certainly plenty of scope: last year listed American companies invested a mediocre 5003% of their total cashflow.
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Yet it goes against human nature for people to think of themselves as mediocre or settling for the average.
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For some of us, Instagram is a place to post mediocre photos of food and/or our own faces.
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European bank shares have been hit by a combination of mediocre earnings and disappointment following Friday's stress test results.
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Come for the familiarity of the same sets and mediocre actors (hey look, Chris Bearstick again!), and stay for
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Yes, the politicians are mediocre, but they are compensated for by traditions and a society with a democratic DNA.
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When it was first released as the B-side of a mediocre record, in 1954, it failed to register.
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Don't waste your time looking at a block full of dilapidated houses in a bad (or even mediocre) neighborhood.
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"It wasn't for lack of effort or structure," the captain Ryan McDonagh said of the Rangers' recent mediocre play.
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I'd have much preferred Motorola put one good camera on the back of the phone than two mediocre ones.
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This is a pretty sweet deal for access to the streaming giant's massive (if not somewhat mediocre) content library.
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Rollovers make sense if you are in a bad 401(k) plan with mediocre investment options or high costs.
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There were too many in the market already, all trying to solve the same problem with a mediocre product.
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He's an okay talker and a bad to mediocre wrestler who routinely messed up his really simply finishing move.
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A life with no high points or low points, no happiness but no sadness, a very mediocre emotionless life.
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Even a mediocre southpaw can make the jabber's job very hard if his lead hand keeps obstructing the path.
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But thanks to a sweet tooth and a mediocre dental hygiene regimen in college, I got a few cavities.
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A mediocre kicker who abused his wife, admitted to viewing her as a slave, and then lied about it.
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Those potential customers, put off by mediocre theaters and expensive tickets, are the ideal market for The Screening Room.
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The Chargers have spent most of the past decade being mediocre and wasting the end of Philip Rivers' prime.
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That's why I tell my fighters: You can be a mediocre fighter but why would you want to be?
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Even if a mediocre hall had resulted, the avoidance of the usual cultural-political imbroglio would have been newsworthy.
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Given as many chances as they had, a mediocre taker could easily have fluked his way to similar heights.
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While there were a bunch that were mediocre and some that were bad, luckily, some of them were great.
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Although one was much larger than the other, they were largely identical in terms of quality and value: mediocre.
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Instead, you get a strong review and the same old mediocre two percent merit increase you got last year.
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Instead, what prevailed was a largely one-sided, sensationalized obsession on the dangers of vitriolic and mediocre online discussions.
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But the words ... the grammar was bad, the messages completely contradictory, condescending or self-loathing, the writing mostly mediocre.
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If a used Malibu from this era has a noteworthy downside, it's the mediocre fuel economy in V6 models.
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For all the other times and places I set up Clips, I got almost universally bad or mediocre photos.
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But the Giants had ample salary-cap space, and they have been a mediocre team since at least 2013.
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It was simply time to write: to crank out mediocre pages to learn how to crank out better pages.
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Michigan's roster was buckling under the weight of Lloyd Carr's mediocre recruiting well before it collapsed under Rich Rodriguez.
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Bill Connelly's S&P+ ratings—a component of F/+—were less kind still, ranking the Hawkeyes a mediocre 47th.
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Fans loved to hate on this mediocre theater queen, who somehow managed to make it to the top five.
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Jones, who the Giants hope will be their quarterback of the future, had a mediocre 17-19 college record.
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Following a round of mediocre third-quarter earnings, trucking giants are pointing to a recession in manufacturing and industrials.
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Critics of stock options say the grants can produce large amounts of wealth for CEOs even with mediocre performance.
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Also overachieving are the Oakland Athletics (who were expected to be mediocre but are 22013-233) and the Mariners.
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Mediocre teams in other divisions, like the San Francisco Giants and the Washington Nationals, were closer to first place.
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Good wine will still be good consumed from tumblers, but even the best glasses won't help a mediocre bottle.
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It seems that all the at-least mediocre players buss out the sunnies for the full poker face effect.
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But when it came to private equity, the difference in returns between mediocre and top managers was 21 points.
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Let's be honest: This great nation has often been led by mediocre men, some of whom had unpleasant personalities.
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She gets along by not threatening the men — keeping her expectations low, her comments flattering and her work mediocre.
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They do not believe in mediocre pitching of any kind, and have not had much of it so far.
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Add it all up — faster inflation plus mediocre nominal-wage growth — and you get a stagnation in real wages.
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A piece of art is like a child: you can't use your mediocre imagination to change anything about it.
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While the rest of my physique is mediocre by the laxest standards, I started adulthood with an exemplary foot.
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On Baseball The race for the second American League wild-card berth has been a slog of the mediocre.
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Darwin figured this out long ago — talent rises, good companies make it, and bad companies with mediocre founders won't.
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" He also derided the literary styles of works like "Just Mercy" and "Between the World and Me" as "mediocre.
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Bogle, who died in January, often recalled how early index funds were disparaged as mediocre, even called un-American.
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During my crowded "alone time" I read thick biographies, favorite authors and a fair number of mediocre parenting books.
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El crecimiento económico mediocre durante los veinticinco años pasados contribuyó de manera decisiva a la elección de López Obrador.
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Two-thirds of the state's roads are in mediocre or poor condition, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Despite mediocre reviews, the whispers among critics who have seen the whole first season is that it gets better.
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That's not saying much, as those 24-205 Bills ended last season with a mediocre record of 6-10.
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According to TRIP, a national transportation research group, 44% of America's major roads are in poor or mediocre condition.
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In an age of near-universal craft-cocktail excellence, they are mediocre, pricey, and boldly unsubtle, served in acrylic.
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Like Disney+, for every good thing Netflix makes it also offers loads of mediocre TV shows and original movies.
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They note that his approval ratings are still mediocre, even if they have ticked up modestly in recent weeks.
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In fact, the researchers report, most of the best violinists had spent less time practicing than the mediocre violinists.
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Through six episodes it's blandly mediocre, though it starts to perk up a little in Episodes 5 and 6.
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When your friends are on screen too, a mediocre game or silly video is elevated into a memorable experience.
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The movie, about a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a festival, has a mediocre C+ CinemaScore.
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In came the mediocre Gerald Wallace in exchange for a first-round pick that Portland turned into Damian Lillard.
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The results were some mediocre social media content and a giant brain tumor that needed to come out immediately.
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Even the mediocre 2004 film King Arthur, a gritty reboot produced before gritty reboots were cool, did it better.
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Even today, Germany's performance in achieving gender parity has been lambasted as "mediocre" and "lagging" by the European Parliament.
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Those skills, which can be the most elusive aspects of an actor's performance, often distinguish mediocre actors from great ones.
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From her mediocre early work in The Deer Hunter and Out of Africa to her underwhelming performances in Kramer vs.
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Their relentless pursuit of the big, the brash, and the bloody-mindedly mediocre is both money-making and spirit-sapping.
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The Vapor 2's rapid charging feature at least takes some of the sting out of its mediocre battery life.
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But she concludes that such selfless artistry is beyond her, and for this reason, her music will always be mediocre.
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Her husband isn't the great genius she thought he was: He's a pretty mediocre writer who needs constant ego boosting.
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Unfortunately, not only was the film met with mediocre reviews on opening weekend, the soundtrack itself isn't too hot either.
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Many mutual funds provide mediocre or poor long-run returns, in part because of high management fees and excessive trading.
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About 50% of the food photos I see on Instagram are mediocre — just a mess of brown, brown and brown.
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Similarly, today, carbon recapture is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of funding, but the results are mediocre, at best.
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And when multiple stress fractures already exist—the result of decades of mediocre leadership—all that's required is a tripwire.
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Also disappointing were mediocre starter plates and desserts whose muddy flavors and so-so execution detracted from the main event.
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Dan Mazer's crude, mindless "Dirty Grandpa" is like watching a friend's mediocre improv troupe do an extended spring-break sketch.
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The probable result is lower returns as firms throw cash at mediocre new businesses and enter the markets of rivals.
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Most of the sales are just mediocre — but there are a few that stand head and shoulders above the rest.
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Jo Johnson, the universities minister, has some sympathy: he has said that too many students are exposed to "mediocre teaching".
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Nobody ever runs around saying "wait and see" when their team makes a good trade, or even a mediocre one.
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Yet Mr Szymanski of the University of Michigan has shown that few managers can do much to improve mediocre teams.
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They'd rather go with the option they know, even if it's mediocre, because new is associated with risk and failure.
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Let us help you cut through the world's ever-growing pile of mediocre entertainment and find one thing worth watching.
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Glyph's reviews are mostly mediocre, although your correspondent found it tastes good when mixed with a slug of ginger ale.
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It didn't improve my mediocre athletic abilities, and my study of modern Greek was as haphazard and ineffective as ever.
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Outside of Baton Rouge, there is no universe in which Miles is a bad coach, or even a mediocre one.
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The gain occurred even though 2017 has been Berkshire's second straight year of mediocre operating performance relative to prior periods.
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Google and Lenovo released one mediocre VR headset, while Microsoft maintained its Windows Mixed Reality brand with updated partner headsets.
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"Over all, we will see fewer watches on the market that are mediocre, boring or in poor condition," he said.
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That posture came across as bitter, not to mention false — especially to anyone who had seen the deeply mediocre film.
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Better, so the thinking goes, to have big classes taught by excellent teachers than smaller ones taught by mediocre ones.
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I mean it was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong.
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Some pulls, even ones that normally seem mediocre, can turn out to be useful when paired with your Rogue resources.
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But use of the service has not taken off: it has only a few, mediocre reviews on the iTunes store.
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Moreno was someone with first hand experience of the Metro, go go music, and years of mediocre Bullets/Wizards basketball.
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Against a mediocre Michigan State offense and a terrible Duke offense, it was the defense's turn to stink it up.
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Overall, Clinton was mediocre, using tired lines and recycled talking points for much of the night, with few memorable moments.
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I kept playing stuff, and now I have a band that's good, but vastly mediocre compared to the Baby Boiz.
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When I was a kid I wrote books, but then even at Brown I wrote a few mediocre short stories.
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Then again, neither should some mediocre single about throwing money on strippers and having a champagne shower in the VIP.
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The rest of the economic news is mediocre; not terrible, but not the kind of stuff that suggests record highs.
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This provokes a scolding lecture from Dick about the ability of a song to make a mediocre film a masterpiece.
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Now whiling away his retirement as a mediocre amateur painter, he may have even drawn the prototype of Cockman himself.
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There are alternatives like the this one and this one, but the quality seems pretty mediocre from the Amazon ratings.
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It would have been a monumental task for a very great author, but Turkmenbashi was not even a mediocre author.
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Certainly adequate, but notably underwhelming, the resulting project is a mediocre rehash of every action movie you've ever seen ever.
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Perhaps expectations for Trump are so low that the media will deem even a mediocre performance a win for him.
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Boston's record within the two-thirds bad AL East is 38-14; the Yankees stands at a mediocre 29-24.
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Unfortunately, the appearance was more impressive than the taste — I felt like the plant-based nuggets were kind of mediocre
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After their ace, Gerrit Cole — who left Friday's start with right triceps tightness — the Pirates' rotation has been mostly mediocre.
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After all, having an efficient quarterback can make the difference between turning a mediocre team into a potential playoff contender.
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But she had ascended to the top of international competition at a relatively late age and after a mediocre career.
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Cashman said the weekend sweep at Tampa Bay — Steinbrenner territory — cast a referendum on a persistently mediocre major league roster.
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The reviews of the show are harsh, with critics calling out the "forgettable plots" and "mediocre characters" of the series.
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But with AirPods, you're paying a premium for mediocre features and quality just to be part of the Apple ecosystem.
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And it should also know by now that its ability to generate user affinity through software is mediocre at best.
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It's very much the sum of its many decent parts minus the sum of its many mediocre or bad ones.
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This slotted into the DS's Game Boy cartridge slot and turned a decidedly mediocre game into a pretty good one.
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The only campaign to even come close received a mediocre reception, raising a mere 3 percent of its $250k goal.
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Toasted white bread smeared with mayo; green leaf lettuce; mediocre, probably out-of-season tomatoes; chewy bacon, not too crispy.
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There's a certain point when you're creating anything when it's deeply mediocre and it's just the name of the game.
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It's not that thinly sliced beef thrown on top of mediocre bread doused in processed cheese sauce is inherently bad.
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A Mediocre Camera Like pretty much every handset maker, Google proclaims Pixel's camera to be the best on the market.
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Celebrity costumes that won Halloween 2019 Halloween costumes were pretty mediocre for some, but these celebrities went above and beyond.
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And mediocre turnout in 2016 helped Donald Trump to win the presidency, which has allowed him to nominate two justices.
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And on Monday, Democrats failed to flip a winnable Minnesota statehouse seat, largely because of mediocre turnout from their base.
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His pals include Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, and his movie is as mediocre as the latest versions of theirs.
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"Larry Sanders" was an extremely funny TV show about a mediocre TV show produced by characters grappling with its mediocrity.
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Ultimately, a red-team exercise is a great tool for testing decisions, but a mediocre method for vetting the truth.
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It's unwise for the government to subsidize a competing, mediocre program that could undermine private-sector innovations in apprenticeship training.
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He is, perhaps, the only director (or star) whose career is no longer impacted by ticket sales — good, bad, mediocre.
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Had he married Hale when he was young, he wrote, he most likely would have become a mediocre philosophy professor.
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Most of the food I cooked was mediocre at best — I was a novice, after all, and made countless mistakes.
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Susan Shapiro, a writing professor at the New School in Manhattan, was the type of mediocre student she now disdains.
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Breakfast is mediocre but we sit on the rooftop for a while and just enjoy the last day of this.
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We are a country of mediocre education and limited skills, whose preening vanity has prevented us from seeing our failings.
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Champagnes from some big houses are great and from others mediocre, and the same is true with the grower-producers.
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Secondly, during peace time, our products were advanced and superior, which allowed many mediocre employees to move into managerial positions.
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It's one thing to eat one or two servings of mediocre food, it's quite another to eat five or six.
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The trouble isn't the mediocre singing and dancing skills of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; their amateur efforts are charming.
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Are mediocre white men not prevalent enough in today's society, so now their avatars must haunt even our tea parties?
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He is a man of many hats: star of film and meme and onetime bass player in a mediocre band.
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Your mom is too cool for a mimosa brunch at a mediocre restaurant serving crappy pancakes and limp bacon, anyway.
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Admission to the school is test-optional: My high school grades were mediocre, but I had a pretty good essay.
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The awards have a spotty track record, having given their top prize to far more mediocre films than great ones.
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But even Will Smith can't save the movie, which vacillates between being fun family fare and a mediocre musical comedy.
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Moran said that mediocre pay, unsafe working conditions, and long hours formed part of the basis for the union drive.
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A Laureate university in Chile lost its accreditation, and regulators said it grew too quickly while maintaining mediocre graduation rates.
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There's clearly room on TV for mediocre Star Trek — after all, Star Trek: Enterprise somehow made it through four full seasons.
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We're living in a time when gay kids can have their own sweetly mediocre studio movies with all the best intentions.
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He's still marketed as a knockout artist even though his knockout percentage is mediocre, scoring just four in the last decade.
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And if they do, they're not nearly as important as the mediocre white women who are #1 on the call sheet.
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A steady stream of big winners and losers is better than a lukewarm piss-pool filled with high-cost, mediocre products.
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Hand to god, it works: Even in the din of CES, a pair of mediocre headphones definitely—hugely—improved the sounds.
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There's an abundance of mediocre photography online, and I believe it perpetuates beginners to keep creating the same commercial-like images.
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When I keep my nose to the grindstone, I typically stumble out of work late at night with a mediocre solution.
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Arizona: Sean Miller's squad is always a tough out, but injuries and uncharacteristically mediocre defense have made the Wildcats vulnerable. 3.
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While a 4 percent loss in 2018 is mediocre, it was the first time hedge funds beat the in a decade.
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Going out of your way to buy a mediocre phone just you can play interior designer a bit better is ludicrous.
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I am a mediocre sewer, and I decided to take the class to better understand how to use my sewing machine.
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Some will be good, some will be mediocre, and some will continue to push at the edges of the genre's possibilities.
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But most firms have mediocre wells too, as well as corporate overheads, so their overall efficiency improvement has not been great.
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What grounds the movie is its exceptional cast: These actors take the mostly mediocre material and enrich it with emotional honesty.
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After a mediocre January, I finally pulled myself out of the funk by dedicating a ton of energy to self-care.
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Chip Kelly has come into our city, replaced all of our top talent with below-mediocre players and gutted our franchise.
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Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who had been having a pretty mediocre day to that point, saw the football roll behind him.
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Like so many great books spoiled by mediocre high school classes, Walden is richer and quirkier when revisited as an adult.
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Votaw has since found a protector with a mediocre 3.5-star rating that he's happy with: "It works perfectly," he said.
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Even an electric technology that is mediocre in terms of energy efficiency can help avoid emissions from dirtier liquid-fueled alternatives.
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Click here to view original GIFFor the past couple of years, mediocre drone videos of dramatic landscapes have littered the internet.
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We pay high taxes, receive mediocre universal healthcare, double-fist beers at 9 AM, and and crush souls in ice sports.
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The report also says that Apple will likely refresh its AirPods, and that the HomePod has been met with "mediocre" demand.
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Trump's approval started off mediocre and quickly became outright bad, in contrast to other presidents, who have typically started off popular.
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How did corporate profitability perform so strongly in the first five years after the financial crisis, despite the mediocre growth recovery?
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Cramer was also impressed by J.C. Penney, whose stock rose despite the fact that it reported mediocre numbers and slashed guidance.
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But how sustainable is this — men with identical taste, making mediocre movies, begging for love with a playlist from the heart?
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He was daring YouTube to ban him, knowing that it would elevate a mediocre scoop into two days of congressional berating.
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If all reviews were positive, it would be awfully hard to pick out the truly great from the merely mediocre. 5.
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In the twenty-first-century West, we are afflicted with a mediocre libertinism, which is as unstable as it is unsatisfactory.
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"Our return on equity was an annualized 12 percent even after what I would say was a mediocre quarter," he added.
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Canal Street in New York City is home to some of the city's best advertising agencies and most mediocre Chinese food.
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Perhaps Khan&aposs greatest legacy was to transform Pakistan cricket&aposs modern-day fortunes, turn a mediocre side into exciting champions.
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The article, which Mr. Marcus described as "exceedingly mediocre" in an email on Wednesday, was assigned over his objections, he said.
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Concerns about match-fixing have steadily simmered since then, though they have primarily focused on mediocre players in low-profile matches.
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Once again, as with the mediocre William Henry Harrison, I've reached a president whose name I remember mostly from The Simpsons.
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He's headlined games of similarly mediocre quality since then, but his best appearances have been thanks to the fighting game genre.
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I told Jobs that the company's products were mediocre, boring, and simplistic and that the company was not strategic for us.
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"I have wished to be a rock star in some private moments … have felt as mediocre as you described," Stone wrote.
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After a mediocre run of his own in the WWF, Luger came back down to WCW and he surprised yet again.
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It's an objectively unimpressive film, but smoking will shine a harsh spotlight on how slow, mediocre and painfully unfunny it is.
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The Pilot is currently up for purchase through Waverly's site for $249 — nearly $100 more than Google's admittedly mediocre Pixel Buds.
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It's like you have no regard for us regular humans who have mediocre genes, appalling style, and wake up with bedhead.
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It didn't really help Drake or help Giggs as an artist because both of his features on the project were mediocre.
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Drug policy is often described as choosing between a bunch of bad or mediocre options, rather than finding the perfect solution.
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I've experienced both good and mediocre supervisors, as well as a few who made me want to rip my hair out.
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Even with mediocre in-car audio, you can almost feel the 1,500-horsepower, quad-turbo W-16 engine at full tilt.
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"I've head a really mental season, I'm not going to lie about that," said Wagner, referring to her recent mediocre form.
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I didn't know what I was doing, nothing was making me happy, I felt super mediocre at everything and just stuck.
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Yeah, there's a lot of bad-to-mediocre TV out there, but there's also a lot of TV that's trying stuff.
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Born in 1964 to a photographer and a factory worker, Ma grew up a mediocre student in the city of Hangzhou.
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Rich elites increasingly opt out of existing mediocre public services and retreat behind gated estates with private water and electricity generation.
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" She continued, "I don't want to sound whiny, but if you're only going to like mediocre stuff, then just say so.
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Forget the era when the category would be stuffed to the gills with mediocre computer-animated films from big-name studios.
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School lunches are very often mediocre, and for office workers, it costs a lot of money to buy food every day.
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As a result, my writing stayed mediocre and average for years until I finally started to embrace the possibility of failure.
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It's the type of action that seems mundane in a crime series, but in fact separates the mediocre from the transcendent.
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Ms. Bunbury's character, Ginny Baker, possesses a mediocre fastball but a fine screwball in an era when few can throw one.
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For the moment, they have hope, because the expanded playoff field gives a chance to teams that rise just above mediocre.
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Over the last three seasons, he has put those criticisms to rest by becoming rather mediocre no matter where he plays.
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If it is any consolation, there is some mediocre evidence that flossing does reduce bloody gums and inflammation known as gingivitis.
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FLAVOR: The chicken drowns out all other flavors in this sandwich, and it's too mediocre to carry the sandwich by itself.
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Those of you who love Chick-fil-A will probably go back time and again for its mediocre, overpriced chicken sandwich.
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PART 5 Plans known as 403(b)'s often have mediocre investment choices and high fees, but there are some remedies.
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In other words, even those countries that pursued responsible macroeconomic policies are growing at a mediocre rate of 3% or so.
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But the device was of mediocre quality; it made a constant buzzing sound and Saadaldean finally had to take it out.
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The company is excellent, but the food is mediocre at best, so I eat an appetizer and anticipate being hungry later.
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The absence of a major competing Android device works out especially well for Google because the Pixel is, relatively speaking, mediocre.
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The result is that Britain has ended up with a state system in which every child receives an equally mediocre education.
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An evening poetry-writing class only reveals her own mediocre talent, no matter how encouraging her charming instructor (Gael García Bernal).
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After the worst downturn in 70 years, the American economy — like much of the world's — has been plagued by mediocre growth.
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The local press follows the fans—or vice versa—basically ignoring the women champions in favor of the mediocre men's team.
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We promise it's going to have way more flavor and texture than those mediocre mashed potatoes your aunt makes every year.
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This tells us that experts and enthusiasts alike don't seem to be spending a great deal of time scoring mediocre wines.
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Megan Malveaux, 16, said she believes she received a mediocre transcript from T.M. Landry because she chose to leave the school.
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Brutal questions emerge: What if you decline motherhood in favor of your art and your art turns out to be mediocre?
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Men are probably pissed at Meek now since he's making it harder for them to be mediocre in their relationships now.
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She said that she had been a mediocre student in elementary school and that her first ACT score had been unimpressive.
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Most of Marantz's subjects are enraged, resentful and — when it comes to the non-internet parts of their lives — profoundly mediocre.
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We haven't had a bad or even a mediocre meal since we've been on the island, and this is no exception.
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My mom would always say that it's better to have a couple of nice things than a lot of mediocre things.
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But having had mediocre grades in college, and no clear vision for my future, I simply accepted this as my purgatory.
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If the country's overall performance looks mediocre, note that it is also highly skewed by London and the southeast of England.
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This, in opposition to "premium mediocre," which he uses to describe older millennials concerned with neurotically crafting an aspirational self-image.
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In less than an hour, even a mediocre cook with salt, pepper and cooking oil can produce an Instagram-worthy meal.
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In 2015, California legislators produced a report that found 68 percent of the state's roads were in "poor to mediocre" condition.
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And according to the DOT, half of the states have a majority of their roadways that qualify as poor or mediocre.
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Letter of Recommendation For several years in the early 2000s, I made mediocre sushi at a Japanese restaurant in suburban Virginia.
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While he is familiar with the Seahawks' playbook, Seattle's offensive line has been mediocre, ranked 19th in the league by FootballOutsiders.com.
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As the rosters look now, even the most mediocre teams in the East seem capable of making playoff runs next season.
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In opinion polls, they consistently give Mr. Trump mediocre approval ratings, even as he remains solidly popular with lower-income whites.
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"Mediocre me," she calls her semi-recovered self, a woman with none of the mental mastery that characterized her earlier life.
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With nearly three-quarters in poor or mediocre condition, they are in the second worst shape in the nation behind Illinois.
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At the same, time the irony is that the banks are just starting to report mediocre to disappointing second quarter earnings.
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He was a mediocre army officer who had recently been ordered to go to Afghanistan, which he was very worried about.
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It was definitely a period where I was like, 'Alright, I'm probably going to be a mediocre single father of five.
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Their first tax overhaul passed in December has seen mediocre public approval and fallen out of some candidates' main talking points.
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Despite his recent string of mediocre releases, it's why many fans refuse to give up hope on the self-proclaimed genius.
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As a result, most of these Polaroid-branded products (TVs, drones, VR headsets, etc.) were poorly made products with mediocre quality.
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But this is far from the first time that critically reviled or mediocre Netflix movies have been major hits with viewers.
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Sunday's ratings will no doubt rebound — the finales always do — and even mediocre "Walking Dead" numbers surpass most other shows' peaks.
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Well, not so much cursed, as they are mediocre to outstanding back down to painfully awful to being pretty okay again.
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I just hope next time, I recognize it before I've put more than twenty hours into a mediocre Star Wars shooter.
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What these three clouds imply for Mexico is a protracted period of insignificant growth after a long period of mediocre growth.
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While the United States likes to fancy itself a technological powerhouse, American broadband has long been derided for being decidedly mediocre.
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So the Flames can be mediocre for five months, dynamite for one month, and that's enough to get to the playoffs?
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For every brilliant "Game of Thrones", chronic disappointments like "The Night Shift", a mediocre medical drama, are only a few clicks away.
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Mr. Yuen's directorial style and the mediocre computer graphics give the film the picturesque, storybook feel of a Chinese studio production, however.
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Ever since losing to Alabama in the 2009 National Championship, the Longhorns haven't just been mediocre or bad—they've been incredibly boring.
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Now, in looking for what separates mediocre midterm years for a president from disastrous ones, one big factor jumps out: presidential approval.
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Like David Bowie and Mick Jagger's mediocre cover of "Dancing In The Street" — the combination of legends always looks great on paper.
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Just give her all the Oscars already so the rest of us can get back to squandering our mediocre and unproductive lives.
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Taking a hit for mediocre customer service from lackluster cashier Squidward, the Krusty Krab still has the best burger under the sea.
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Every good K-pop album and quite a few mediocre ones qualify as a perfect elastic bubblegum confection, distinguishing factors hardly necessary.
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But the company let her slip through its fingers over creative differences — leaving us with the mediocre Thor: The Dark World instead.
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Taylor's husband is a mediocre artist with an ugly superiority complex; her brother is an erratic narcissist with a penchant for blackmail.
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We played a mediocre first half and we were in the lead, but then we were just awful in the second half.
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" In a post detailing many of the reasons why these apps stink, Benjamin Mayo writes, "These are mediocre, bordering on bad, experiences.
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Elizabethtown is Dunst's nearly heroic attempt to make a real girl out of a mediocre script's collection of tics and nonsensical koans.
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That's quite a feat when you're no longer working, particularly against the backdrop of the mediocre stock market of the early 2000s.
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Being able to just tell a speaker to play your favorite Spotify playlist goes a long way in compensating for mediocre sound.
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The series never shakes the impression that it is just a mediocre knockoff of The Hunger Games, because, of course, it is.
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Having one great pair of work shoes has likely saved me the money and headache of trying to buy other mediocre shoes.
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Skip the park's formal restaurants — the food is pricey, and mediocre at best — in favor of quick meals like sandwiches or burgers.
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The bot went from being a beatable mediocre player to competing with the best players in the world in a few weeks.
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He was 25 years old and on the verge of disappearing into the crowded middle infield depth chart of a mediocre team.
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So Anthem is in good company, though of course for every success there are probably two or three failures and mediocre titles.
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In 23 years of managing, Collins has won 941 games and lost 948, giving him a perfectly mediocre winning percentage of .498.
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Just imagine if tech companies used the time and budgets to create these mediocre jokes actually used them to solve pressing issues.
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That's a bit of a bummer, as one of the biggest issues with the AirPods right now is their mediocre battery life.
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CLINTON: I mean it was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong.
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In coming years, patients will be faced with either longer wait times or receiving care from doctors with a mediocre academic pedigree.
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Yet, somehow, Notre Dame has lost to six mediocre-to-bad teams (Michigan State, Texas, Duke, NC State, Stanford, and now Navy).
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The Nittany Lions were known for having porous offensive lines in their first two years, and really a mediocre offense in general.
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He was being paid like he was just a mediocre tight end, and just wanted to get some respect on that end.
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Chasing that second sweep after a failed first attempt is often the difference between a good butterfly player and a mediocre one.
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Clinton blasted the Democratic Party's data as "mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong" compared to the RNC's during an onstage interview with Recode.
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Considering the visible parking lot and portable toilets in the background, this is a pretty mediocre medieval fair we're dealing with here.
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"I used to be a mediocre juggler but I'm proud to say that I've raised generations of wonderful Israeli jugglers," says Roth.
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That's how you end up with deeply mediocre and somehow almost identical-looking white men winning British X Factor year on year.
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"It's been a pretty tough week," the 22-year-old told Reuters, a broad smile on her face despite her mediocre finish.
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That doesn't mean Project Highrise is bad or even mediocre, just that it never quite reaches the same heights as its inspiration.
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Everyone is under contract for next season so no one can escape McPhee's clutches as he builds the most mediocre ship possible.
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It's almost as good as this love letter to a mediocre Sony pico projector Joel wrote for us a few weeks ago.
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On June 11, he took the mound at Crosley Field against a strongly mediocre Boston Bees team and pitched a no-hitter.
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Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony.
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I will not, because there's nothing about the team's callow, cheap, profoundly mediocre owners that is new, or even really very interesting.
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So will mediocre/decent teams that also lack flexibility but already have one All-Star and want another (Milwaukee, Indiana, or Charlotte).
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The quality of your dog's diet is directly related to their health, so don't settle for mediocre dog food, treats, or supplements.
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It can in fact be made by mediocre actions and actors, and thrive through the gradual accumulation of unnecessary suffering over time.
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It's a system that does everything to protect the powerful, confident, and mediocre, and nothing to encourage the evolution of quality work.
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As a 19-year-old student at Central Washington State College in 1968, Mattis describes being a "mediocre student" and a partier.
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When you think of an advent calendar, you probably picture a cardboard rectangle with little doors concealing small pieces of mediocre chocolate.
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Though he was considered a mediocre student, Bell unveiled his first invention, a device to de-husk wheat, when he was 12.
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I'd grown frustrated with dating men in my city — maybe I'd just had one too many Tinder dates end in mediocre conversation.
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Meanwhile, my white peers regaled me with tales of miraculously landing great positions and getting into fantastic schools with mediocre test scores.
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George Hill rates as a vitally important player for a Utah Jazz squad that endured mediocre point guard play all last season.
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Traditional stock pickers like Pershing Square and Greenlight Capital have dominated, while firms like Renaissance Technologies and Winton Group have been mediocre.
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"I had a perfect G.P.A. at N.Y.U. and am now getting really mediocre grades, working harder than I ever did," she said.
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Our clichéd forbidden romance came to a head at the very end of the summer with a night of mediocre drunk sex.
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Pirates at Chicago Cubs (Monday-Wednesday) The Pirates should be dead, having posted mediocre team numbers at bat and on the mound.
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But, too much of a good thing — or a mediocre thing — that's been repinned 5,000 times is sometimes just that: too much.
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I grew up in Greater Boston, which means I have personally eaten about 3,000 very mediocre to very bad slices of pizza.
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Meanwhile, I had exactly one agent, a mediocre fighter who had gotten wounded early in the campaign and hadn't gained many levels.
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Blame the quickly rising cost of beef in the US, or simply blame the mediocre status quo of restaurant tacos in America.
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Oklahoma City Thunder Oklahoma City is a collection of flawed-to-mediocre basketball players led by an emotional, triple-double-hoarding barbarian.
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Two decades ago, both were thriving retail temples, anchored by department stores, stuffed with windowless shops and served by mediocre food courts.
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They are why some fans could never be satisfied with Orgeron, whose only head coaching experience was a mediocre tenure at Mississippi.
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Though this may be an indication of mediocre curatorial practice elsewhere, in Dreamlands, it feels very much like a deliberately manufactured effect.
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Don't blame a deeper dive over the weekend by traders into August's mediocre nonfarm payroll report for the stall in the markets.
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Borrowers face the same interest rates whether they are mediocre art students or valedictorians studying quantum computing at a top engineering school.
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The day before, Jeremy told us, he had met a friend for lunch in Manhattan and had a mediocre $16 turkey burger.
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He was a mediocre failed musician; he built his cult on recycled Scientologist ideas and an elaborate theory about a race war.
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Primary care physicians can be mediocre at recognizing if a patient is depressed, or at predicting who is about to become depressed.
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There's none of the amplitude, the imaginative energy of his best work or even the interesting surliness of his more mediocre efforts.
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And when the ball finds its way into the paint, in the restricted area, the Celtics shoot 212 percent, also below mediocre.
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The date was mediocre at best — but in the days that followed, I second-guessed my decision not to see him again.
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The results were mediocre, though, as BLUEJAYS qualified for just one B-Tier event in 2019, finishing 13th-16th in the LOOT.
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Despite a one-day bounce the day after the midterm elections, November so far has been a mediocre month for the market.
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