For example, publication bias can make a merely mediocre drug look spectacularly effective.

Posada will go out to the bullpen and feel the ball thumping into his mitt and know whether Clemens is overpowering, or if his stuff is merely mediocre.

It compounds the problem when one of these is put on stage, since what can be merely mediocre in a novel can be agonizingly dull in the theater.

In the end he is deemed merely mediocre and is left on Earth to perish (Quik the Thunder Rabbit)

Where the going gets tough, or ought to, is among the books that are merely mediocre.

In a merely mediocre production, such as the one it is receiving at the Long Island Stage, "Talley's Folly" survives quite well indeed.

If the Legislature makes such termination expensive, H.M.O.'s will only remove those doctors who are truly incompetent, not those who are merely mediocre.

But laws that throw out good officials along with the bad or merely mediocre are no solution to the problem of perpetual incumbents who don't deliver.

I find it is merely mediocre.

The September 1789 issue of The English Review, however, was highly critical, deeming Zeluco a merely mediocre novel.