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
Sophomore Jordan Woolery, who struck out with the bases loaded in the second inning, didn’t miss in the fifth, delivering a three-run homer to dead center field.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 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
Planted dead center on the stage in “This House Is Not a Home,” a slippery, ever-shifting work by Nile Harris, is a house — a bounce house.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
It was after five in the morning when he found him lying almost in the dead center of the Lawn.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
