midstream
- adverb
- /ˈmɪdˌstrim/
- It's changing horses midstream and psychologically for your audience, it just doesn't work.
To my faculty colleagues, I know the prospect of changing course midstream is daunting.
- To my faculty colleagues, I know the prospect of changing course midstream is daunting.
- It's changing horses midstream and psychologically for your audience, it just doesn't work.
- And so if some of you here have been with us from the start, when we met here a couple weeks ago, some of you came in midstream.
Examples
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To my faculty colleagues, I know the prospect of changing course midstream is daunting.
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Changing the plan midstream can confuse everyone involved in the project.
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Yes, format switches midstream where I had the bottom, the last question.
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I guess it make would make more sense if I didn't switch my notation in midstream A&B.
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It's changing horses midstream and psychologically for your audience, it just doesn't work.
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The team decided to change their strategy midstream to achieve better results.
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We usually try to avoid making decisions midstream, as it can disrupt the workflow.
Synonyms
While something is still happening and not finished
Happening in the middle of a journey or project
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Switching leaders or plans during a project that is already happening when it is risky
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Midstream used as an adverb comes from the same parts mid and stream, imagining events as a flow. So to act midstream is to act 'in the middle' of an action or process, before it is finished.