The workers demanded control over the production means to ensure a fair distribution of profits.

Everyone liked her sunny laugh, but she also had a mean streak that surfaced when she felt threatened.

To compare the groups, we calculated the grand mean and then examined each group's deviation from it.

The absolute means of the sample set were higher than those of the control group, suggesting greater variability.

Policy analysts often examine geometric means to reduce the influence of outliers when comparing income data.

When comparing multiple data sets, the arithmetic means often reveal trends that medians do not capture.

When he sabotaged her presentation and smirked, she clenched her jaw and muttered, 'this means war'.

The antique algebra text listed several means proportional between segments, though the notation is archaic.

The mean proportional between a and b is the square root of ab.

When solving classical construction problems, mathematicians searched for techniques to construct mean proportionals between two segments.