Definition of neck and neck
: very close (as in a race)
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But Corbyn's leadership has left Labour neck and neck in the polls with the ruling Conservatives.
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Milwaukee and Miami are neck and neck for the No. 7 seed in the East.
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Polls show that Uribe ally Ivan Duque is running neck and neck with Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla from the now-defunct M-19 group.
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Posey’s rates may be the most attractive asset between the two, but this one is neck and neck.
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As The New York Times reported, Moser ended election night with 24.4% of the vote, putting her neck and neck in a race with fellow Democrat Lizzie Panill Fletcher.
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As for Democrats, Jana Lynne Sanchez and Ruby Faye Woolridge appeared to be neck and neck, each with 37 percent.
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The race for first place in the West is neck and neck, and neither the Houston Rockets nor the Golden State Warriors resemble anything less than a No.
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Two skiers were neck and neck at the end, the crowd was going wild.
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