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nip and tuck

adjective as in very close and evenly contested

adverb as in very close and evenly contested

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Example Sentences

They saw the light years ago and now many do a healthy nip-and-tuck business, especially on noses.

But did she really deserve all the nip-and-tuck hate-tweeting?

I knew right off it was a nip-and-tuck race, with the chances in favor of a man called Pringle getting nipped.

I pulled several gurgling dogs from their water-filled holes, each of them making nip-and-tuck efforts to climb out.

It was nip-and-tuck for the first half of that third period, with neither team making headway and the ball in air half the time.

Texas fought in the wild and savage style of the prairie, nip-and-tuck, go-as-you-please; and he was wild with anger.

For the first six innings, it was a nip-and-tuck battle between the two pitchers.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nip and tuck, such as: abreast, deadlocked, drawn, head-to-head, level, and neck-and-neck.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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