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- noun Plural form of
medium .
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Examples
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The vast popularity of these anti-technology mediums is troubling to say the least - NASA broadband broadcasting their involvement with futurists would have been correct, but it would have been media suicide.
Singularity University: The Big News NASA Isn't Talking About - NASA Watch 2009
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How important for us do you think it is – to experience stories told in mediums other than our own.
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If you could download a CDROM to replace a CDROM that was stolen, that would get closer to possible (note: difference of mediums is the issue)
Is Being Burgled An Excuse For Piracy? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Our society, like countless others, in attitudes of equality in cultural mediums, is constantly in flux.
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So I think it makes sense to "self-publish" in mediums where the traditional presses don't, and let them handle the paper books.
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My crossing genres and mediums is a very new thing and the jury is very much out as to whether it will work.
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Apparently attempting to master two mediums is not sufficient for Whedon as he has also branched out to writing comic books.
An Introduction To Joss Whedon | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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Spiritualists believed that certain individuals -- "mediums" -- possessed the power to communicate with those who had passed away but who still, in spirit form, moved among the living, overlooking their lives, and were able to be called upon to provide guidance by way of verbal communication through the medium, or even by assuming visible material forms.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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Spiritualists believed that certain individuals -- "mediums" -- possessed the power to communicate with those who had passed away but who still, in spirit form, moved among the living, overlooking their lives, and were able to be called upon to provide guidance by way of verbal communication through the medium, or even by assuming visible material forms.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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It is my principle, as well as that of Lycurgus, to avoid "mediums" -- that is to say, people who are not decidedly one thing or the other.
A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Sarah Ellen Blackwell
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