dead center
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The piston faces have small, crescent-shaped reliefs into which the valves extend near the top dead center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
In the bottom of the sixth, Seattle center fielder Julio Rodríguez robbed Taylor of a two-run home run to dead center field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2025
Julio Rodriguez ended Williams’ run of scoreless innings and his personal home run drought, crushing a sinker over the wall in dead center for this third homer of the year.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
So, imagine me standing on top of a soapbox, dead center in the middle of a crowd of about 1,000 people, yelling at the top of my lungs, "All books are not created equal!"
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
His place was dead center, between Marcus’s father and another privileged senator.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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