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"text": "A “midplace,” or general stage, is also mentioned, with a little oratory furnished with stools and cushions.",
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"ref": "2009, Steven Connor, The Book of Skin",
"text": "If all the senses are milieux, or midplaces where inside and outside meet and meld, then the skin is the global integral of these local area networks, the milieu of these milieux: […]",
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"text": "Firms were searching for a midplace to park production.",
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"ref": "2013, Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction",
"text": "By the third night, when Scott finally managed to locate him and send in retrieval forces, Jared's spirit had set to wandering the mid-places, that spiritual line between life and death; he was certain of it.",
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"ref": "2016, Arthur I. Miltz, Art of Advocacy Series",
"text": "That's where the king and queen, the court and ceremony would have been happening at mid-court, mid-place of the grandstand.",
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