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Free sign upThe phrase "a string of mediocre" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of items, performances, or experiences that are of average or below-average quality.
Example: "The movie was disappointing, featuring a string of mediocre performances that failed to engage the audience."
Alternatives: "a series of subpar" or "a chain of average".
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After playing a string of mediocre opponents, they saw a matchup with the Central Division-leading Indiana Pacers as a chance for a mid-January temperature check.
"Besides, we still have Kennedy!" After a string of mediocre performances and his own stint on the disabled list, Kennedy joined Hughes in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre doghouse.
He points to a rule in Google's corporate philosophy that "it's best to do one thing really, really well," and suggests that the company is "doing 100 different things rather than one thing really, really well .Google is thus starting to look a bit as Microsoft did a decade ago, with one strength (Windows for Microsoft, search for Google) and a string of mediocre "me-too" products.
According to Appel, "What would follow would be a string of mediocre to bad seasons and not a very good attraction for baseball-crazed New York fans".
In lieu of releasing a string of mediocre music videos filled with awkward plots and lip synching, Dirty Dishes filmed themselves playing through a few tracks at Hanging Horse Studio in Massachusetts.
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Since his breakthrough as the ultimate thinking woman's crumpet in Pride and Prejudice, Firth has spent most of his time subverting his brooding Mr Darcy image by horsing around with amiable skill in a string of often mediocre, but sometimes very successful British comedies.
Also reviewing the twelfth season, DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson was less positive, commenting: "I'd love to report that 'Menace' disrupts the string of mediocre episodes [before it in the season], but I can't.
The zone's mediocre performance, the OECD says, is not just bad luck, "circumstantial arguments"—the Iraq war, oil and commodity price shocks and the stronger euro being no excuse for a "string of aborted recoveries".
Having won a string of the evermore meaningless state titles and the 2006 Brazilian Cup, Flamengo had – apart from a third-place finish in 2006 – merely alternated mediocre campaigns and dangerous flirtations with relegation since 1992.
It has suffered a string of setbacks.
A string of Louisiana archetypes followed.
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