Sendhil Mullainathan

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

American Economist

Scott Pruitt

The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot.

American Politician

Albert Camus

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

French Philosopher

Rashad Evans

I didn't really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the 'Ultimate Fighter' show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.

American Athlete

Abdolkarim Soroush

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Iranian Philosopher

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

American Novelist

Ron Carlson

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

Arianna Huffington

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

American Journalist

Jordan Klepper

I grew up a geek. I added comedy to it midway through high school.

American Comedian

Plotinus

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Egyptian Philosopher

Used to express progress at a specific point within a given timeframe.

Duration Context

Indicates a physical location that's equally distant from two other points.

Spatial Reference

Describes relative progress or position on a scale or range.

Comparative Scale

Implies an approximation rather than an exact point when describing location.

Not Precise

Conveys no emotion or opinion; simply states a positional fact.

Neutral Term

Refers to the active, lively entertainment area in fairs.

Entertainment Zone

Associated with American fairs; may not be understood in all English-speaking cultures.

Cultural Usage

Evokes images of a festive and bustling atmosphere common at midways.

Carnival Atmosphere

 We clearly have to be large, compared to atoms, to have layer upon layer of complex structure. We clearly have to be small, compared to stars and planets -- otherwise we'd be crushed by gravity. And in fact, we are midway. It would take as many human bodies to make up the sun

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 from my face it was touching my face and I was just grateful that I couldn't smell I went on believing for so many years that I had a sense of smell that had to learn how to use it it wasn't till at least midway through elementary school that I said okay this is a real

This Is What It's Like...

 and unfortunately, the majority of our system in the past worked entirely based on people reporting harassment and abuse. So about midway last year, we decided that we were going to apply a lot more machine learning, a lot more deep learning to the problem,

How Twitter needs to...

 So how does a place cell know where the rat or person is within its environment? Well these two cells here show us that the boundaries of the environment are particularly important. So the one on the top likes to fire sort of midway between the walls

Neil Burgess: How your...

 clicking and hissing and kissing and clucking sounds to attract their female judges midway through the dance an elder woman wearing a yellow veil dashes up and down the line of dancers mocking the men mercilessly to inspire them on to

Carol Beckwith & Angela...

 They were ambitious and motivated. And they believed that they could use the power of law to protect people. They were on a mission that I could definitely understand. Midway through the course, Nick, a fellow incarcerated student,

What prosecutors and...

 Therefore, the key to their escape would be in keeping to the middle. With the instructions clear, both men leapt from the tower. They were the first mortals ever to fly. While Daedalus stayed carefully to the midway course,

The myth of Icarus and...

 are still rather highly judges, nurses. The rest of us are in between, and by the way, the average person in the street is almost exactly midway. But is that good evidence? What opinion polls record is, of course, opinions.

Onora O'Neill: What we...

 moment was missed there were a little bit shy which I don't blame them they were midway through the throes of passion when we bumped we kind of interrupted them and then I stopped doing their business and then thought to

Introducing a New...

 magazines hoping to scrape together enough money to score midway through the afternoon they can afford a couple of hits which they get from their usual dealer