Example Sentences

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Some environmental scientists have flagged two parasiticides found in most spot-on treatments to kill fleas and ticks on cats and dogs, fipronil and imidacloprid, as toxic to wildlife.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Bloom’s first foray into crime fiction nails the genre’s conventions while her bona fides as a recently retired professor of English and psychotherapist in mid-state Connecticut make this book resonate as spot-on, hilarious truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

If the forecast is spot-on, the annual increase in wholesale inflation would jump to 4.8% from 4% in the prior month, reflecting the highest rate since February 2023.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

"It was a challenging prediction, and we had to be spot-on," Barat says.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

My uprock was the best it’d ever been; my six-step was spot-on, and I dropped into a crab walk that morphed, briefly, into a cricket.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi