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dead center

[ded sen-ter] / ˈdɛd ˈsɛn tər /




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In my head, I see a dart fly through the air and hit one of those red and white target boards dead center.

From Literature

We skidded to a stop dead center, and as though we’d planned it, we reached out at the same time to grab hands.

From Literature

The piston faces have small, crescent-shaped reliefs into which the valves extend near the top dead center.

From The Wall Street Journal

Jon M. Chu, who made the second part of a musical adaptation with “Wicked: For Good,” sits dead center — and has been known to talk to the theater manager if the sound isn’t loud enough.

From Los Angeles Times

In the town of Ishinomaki, dead center along the coast of Miyagi, residents were lulled into a false sense of security by the early tsunami predictions.

From Literature