"midwit" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mid- + wit; likely coined in line with nitwit, halfwit, etc.",
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          "ref": "2022 July 1, Merri, “Brief Genealogy of the Midwit”, in The Pillarist:",
          "text": "How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray.",
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          "ref": "2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:",
          "text": "A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic.",
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          "ref": "2023 February 21, David Sinclair, The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak:",
          "text": "Congress is packed with midwits. There are no intellectuals in Congress. None could flourish in such a mediocre environment.",
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        "A person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dumb nor notably intelligent, especially if they act as if they are smarter than they are."
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        "(neologism, chiefly Internet slang, mildly derogatory) A person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dumb nor notably intelligent, especially if they act as if they are smarter than they are."
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          "text": "How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray.",
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