dead spot
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With the emergence of rookies Ben Gamel and Mitch Haniger, and the resurgence of Danny Valencia and Mike Zunino, the Mariners don’t have a dead spot to prop up a struggling opposing pitcher.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2017
A dead spot having zero speed is created there.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Elle Macpherson, the show’s host, is the only dead spot, but she isn’t around much.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2012
But moving speech processing to the cloud means that if the server crashes, or if the phone is in a dead spot, voice commands stop working.
From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 4, 2011
The crowd in the harbour blended into a close, dark and dead spot, faceless, formless, motionless.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman