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in the mix

in the mix prepositional phrase: included in a mixture or group.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Included in a mixture or group.
    • There might be no need to use variations in the mix to avoid excessive inflation at any given level of employment if some form of incomes policy were capable of exerting complete control over the general level of wage rates and other incomes.1985, James Oliver Newton Perkins, The Macroeconomic Mix in the Industrialized World, page 107
  2. Acting as a disc jockey; mixing music
  3. Enculturated to a subculture.
    • Women can get caught in the mix through self-destructive behaviors such as drug use and fighting or damaging relationships that interfere with one's program or limit freedom through placement in restrictive housing or the addition of time to one's sentence.1998, Barbara Owen, In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison, page 8
    Synonyms:
    mixed up

Synonyms of in the mix

Questions about in the mix

What does in the mix mean?
In the mix means included in a mixture or group.
What part of speech is in the mix?
In the mix is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the mix in the dictionary

  1. in the mean time
  2. in the meantime
  3. in the meanwhile
  4. in the middle of
  5. in the midst of
  6. in the mix
  7. in the moment
  8. in the money
  9. in the mood
  10. in the name of
  11. in the name of all that is holy

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