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Lifestyle 18 ways to learn about plants while volunteering around L.A.
Nov. 27, 2023
About halfway to the trailhead, passing hikers stop to photograph the art hikers, now sweaty and winded.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
The math department is in Armstrong Hall, which sits on a ledge about halfway up a steep slope leading to the river.
—Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
It’s located halfway up the far less visited, less famous, eastern side of California, between Yosemite National Park and the Nevada border.
—Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Like he wasn’t supposed to have found his own way home and be halfway there by now.
—Staci Robinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
Carefully lower eggs into boiling water; cook, undisturbed, for 11 minutes, 30 seconds.
Make ice bath:
Meanwhile, fill a large bowl halfway with ice; add water to cover.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
The station could then descend about halfway to the planet’s surface before encountering destabilizing effects.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
The engine of their sailboat was dead about halfway into what was supposed to be a month-long trip.
—Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
Fowler: Obviously in most seasons of Love Island, there’s a Casa Amor around about halfway, and either the girls leave or the boys leave the villa.
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
Adjective
Around the halfway point of Todd Haynes’s May December, Natalie Portman’s Elizabeth — a television actress with a Juilliard education, tasked with bringing to life a decades-old scandal for a movie — visits the local high school to talk acting with the theater class there.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2023
Crenshaw’s Collington Tillett took a pitch around left end four yards for a touchdown that made it 21-21 approaching the halfway point of the third quarter.
—Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
At the halfway point of the gala, Sara Baras appeared with her tribute to Carmen Amaya, who left the audience stunned after the cante and toque that characterized the first part of the show.
—Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2023
Angela is almost forty—statistically, the halfway point of her (expected) life—and she’s preoccupied by big, existential questions.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
At the same time, the report noted, crime levels levels at the halfway mark of this year remained 24% higher than through the first six months of 2019.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
The leader at the halfway point, For All The Dogs finishes the week at the summit, joining his other best-sellers Views (from 2016), Scorpion (2018), Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020), Certified Lover Boy (2021) and Her Loss with 21 Savage (2022).
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2023
One highlight of the sale will be a car made near the halfway point in the progression of the automobile so far.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023
Carles Gil and Nacho Gil started the sequence leading to the goal, gaining possession near the halfway line.
—Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
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