midstream

From mid- + stream.

midstream (usually uncountable, plural midstreams)

1. The middle of a stream or river.

• change horses in midstream
• swap horses in midstream

midstream (not comparable)

1. in midstream

   moored midstream

   some of them got caught midstream by the tide

2. (figurative) in midstream, abruptly

   the most difficult thing in a fast game of rugby is to change course midstream

   • 2018 January 19, Matt Katz, “Leaving Africa, and Living in Limbo”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But it was in the middle of this process that he had met Ms. Lukoji, and he opted not to change his application midstream to take his marriage into account.

   • 2020 November 19, Natasha Frost, “Covid-19, Boris Johnson, U.S. Troops: Your Thursday Briefing”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Unlike film, theater and TV, the book world didn’t get interrupted midstream.