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The phrase "a middle initial" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the initial of a person's middle name, often in the context of formal identification or documentation.
Example: "Please include your full name, including a middle initial, on the application form."
Alternatives: "a middle name initial" or "the initial of the middle name".
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L.E.: I have a middle initial.
There are two Andersons, differentiated by a middle initial.
Use a middle initial and become that man.
My situation is more urgent: a middle initial is my only escape from total anonymity.
(Professionally, she used the initial of her maiden name as a middle initial).
People who used a middle initial were considered better credit risks than those who didn't.
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She hired a lawyer, James B. Fishman, who discovered in an Internet search that a woman with the same name but a different middle initial — Dolores M. Shapiro — appeared to reside at the Naperville address.
He did not like the sound of "Andrew" or "Andy," so he decided to adopt a new middle initial and settled on "J", as a homage to actor Michael J. Pollard.
Although his son bore a different middle initial, he "has been called Junior all his life".
The byline of an opinion essay on Nov. 20 about the future of retirement in the United States gave an incorrect middle initial for the writer.
But he shares a first name (with a different spelling), last name and middle initial with a financier of a Pakistani terror group.
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