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well-aimed

adverb as in on the nose

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Death could come suddenly, in a blinding flash, as shells exploded in or near the trenches, or from a well-aimed sniper’s bullet as a soldier peered over a trench parapet into no man’s land.

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After the egging of Nick Griffin, Gerry Gable, the long-time editor of the UK anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, wrote that while seeing foodstuffs being dumped over Griffin's head "certainly brought a smile to many people's face," it was "going to take more than a few well-aimed eggs and worthy placards to finish the BNP for good".

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It carried through Portugal’s major threat in the fifth minute, when Bono lunged to his left to save Joao Felix’s well-aimed header.

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Each drone flies slowly enough to be shot out of the sky with a well-aimed rifle, and carries only a small explosive payload equivalent to an artillery shell.

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Screechers were a nuisance, but nothing a well-aimed arrow couldn’t fix.

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

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