How to Use midterm in a Sentence

midterm

noun
  • He dropped the course before midterm.
  • The students will be busy taking midterms next week.
  • McCarthy rips Matt Rosendale for rooting for the Democrats in the midterms.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
  • He's won in a toss-up state by a landslide in the midterm election.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Supreme Court decision played a key role in the 2022 midterm elections.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2024
  • While the case was ongoing, the map was used during the 2022 midterm elections.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • But the wave of interest from young people in the 2022 midterm makes the last election stand out.
    Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Democratic aides cite the results of the 2022 midterm election.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Democrats lost the House in the midterm elections but kept the Senate with her assistance.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024
  • That’s why Alyssa Cáceres, 20, a student at Lehigh Carbon, voted for the first time in that midterm.
    Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2024
  • There’s the context that this was a red-wave year — the 2020 midterm elections were terrible for Democrats.
    Christian Paz, Vox, 21 July 2024
  • The start of the school year is upon us, and November's midterm elections will soon follow.
    Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Trump has been blamed for the GOP’s disappointing showing in the 2022 midterm elections.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Gates served as chairman of the board during the November 2022 midterm election.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2023
  • By the 2022 midterms Musk would come out in support of the Republican Party.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Foer’s book ends with the midterms, so it is imbued with a sense of vindication.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
  • These maps were actually used in the 2022 midterm elections.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
  • About one-third of Florida voters in the 2022 midterm elections said that shouldn't be the government's job.
    Adriana Gomez Licon The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The midterm elections last year were a Democratic bloodbath in Iowa, even though the party had overperformed in much of the rest of the country.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Exit polling in last year's midterms showed the issue was important in swing states like Michigan.
    Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Chart of the day Turnout by state Among eligible voters, Oregon had the highest turnout in the 2022 midterm elections.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • This was one of two marquee takeaways from the midterm elections—the other was that the pundits were wrong, but that’s true in every election.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, Winslow warned against complacency and said Republicans could win the House.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The provisions became a major flashpoint in one of the closest governor's races of the 2022 midterms.
    CBS News, 30 May 2023
  • This is what some research has suggested happened to Democrats in the 2010 midterms with regard to the Affordable Care Act.
    Matt Harris, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • The first signs of a rift began after Republicans took control of the House, following the 2022 midterms.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 July 2023
  • One factor that could come into play, though, is the GOP's recent efforts in the midterm elections to woo Hispanics, who make up about 13% of the electorate.
    Cristina Corujo, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The rules are sometimes confusing, and some deadlines and procedures have changed since the 2022 midterm elections.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The 2022 Washington primary showed Republicans doing better, but didn’t suggest a huge sweep of a midterm, which is what some pundits were predicting.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
  • But statewide races in a midterm year are not the same as a historic presidential election with a Republican candidate who sucks up an unparalleled amount of political oxygen.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2024

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