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In some cases the same birth weight straddles several percentiles for a given gestational age despite smoothing, particularly at the lowest gestational ages.
The town straddles the border: half is in Portugal, half in Spain (where it’s called Rihonor de Castilla).
Guangzhou, with a population of more than 5 million, straddles the Pearl River — China’s fifth longest — which links the city to the South China Sea.
for the everyday" (Daniel Mendelson, the New York Review of Books ). The problem is that the mixing of this traditional story with King's trademark bone-chilling horror results in a novel that straddles the two genres somewhat awkwardly.
When a politican straddles an issue, he's in much the same position.