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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A US territory consisting of an atoll with two small islands in the central Pacific Ocean northwest of Honolulu. Discovered in 1859, Midway was annexed by the United States in 1867 and served as a naval air base until 1993. The American victory over the Japanese in the Battle of Midway (June 4–7, 1942) was a major turning point in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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Examples
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The Blue Boar Inn is located in Midway, about 15 miles from Park City and a mile from Soldier Hollow.
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Midway is doing a good job of keeping ammo available.
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Midway is apparently nowall about the “execution of an asset purchase agreement for the sale of the Mortal Kombatfranchise assets.”
Midway’s fire-sale « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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Midway is doing a good job of keeping ammo available.
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BALTIMORE Robert Clay, owner of Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., watched the Preakness trophy presentation Saturday with the contentment of a man who had made the boldest wager of the day and won.
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Midway is a huge system, seventy-eight planets and all their moons, three suns dancing in the most intricate display of solar physics known in the galaxy.
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My grandmother Welch had been eleven when Midland it was called Midway back then, because it stood exactly midway between Fort Worth and El Paso on the railroad line got its first official building, an old railroad mail car that was shunted onto a siding to make a post office.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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My grandmother Welch had been eleven when Midland it was called Midway back then, because it stood exactly midway between Fort Worth and El Paso on the railroad line got its first official building, an old railroad mail car that was shunted onto a siding to make a post office.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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The creator/producer/host is Jennifer Wysocki, an all-around outdoorswoman who lives in Midway, Ga (talk about hunting and the workplace!).
Hunting on TV 2007
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I would pay off all the mortgages ($100 million?) in Midway Hollow so that I would have A Treasure To Keep ™.
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