as in root
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
you hit the bull's-eye when you noted that the real issue here is money
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Recent Examples of bull's-eye
Early symptoms include fatigue, fever, joint pain—and a signature bull's-eye rash.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
The Item thrown at a bull's-eye Crossword Clue Answer is...
—Sally Hoelscher, USA Today, 16 July 2025
Monsoon conditions are slowly becoming more favorable across the state, but Phoenix isn’t in the bull's-eye — at least not yet.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 15 July 2025
But the expanding bull's-eye is only one factor in Kentucky communities' vulnerability to tornadoes.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
The target, which was white with a red bull's-eye, was pushed into the wound in his chest.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 8 May 2025
Life-threatening flash flooding is also a major concern on Tuesday and Wednesday from Texas to Missouri, with Oklahoma in the bull's-eye.
—Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
There will be a target with a red bull's-eye on his chest.
—CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
There will be a target with a red bull's-eye on his chest.
—CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
The Item thrown at a bull's-eye Crossword Clue Answer is...
—Sally Hoelscher, USA Today, 16 July 2025
Monsoon conditions are slowly becoming more favorable across the state, but Phoenix isn’t in the bull's-eye — at least not yet.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 15 July 2025
But the expanding bull's-eye is only one factor in Kentucky communities' vulnerability to tornadoes.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
The target, which was white with a red bull's-eye, was pushed into the wound in his chest.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 8 May 2025
Life-threatening flash flooding is also a major concern on Tuesday and Wednesday from Texas to Missouri, with Oklahoma in the bull's-eye.
—Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
There will be a target with a red bull's-eye on his chest.
—CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
There will be a target with a red bull's-eye on his chest.
—CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bull's-eye
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The first verses unspooled over a simple I-V-IV progression, one of the most fundamental sets of chord changes in folk and pop music, each verse ending with a brief upward progression that climbed back to the root chord in time for the next set of lines.—
Peter Ames Carlin,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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Here's everything to know about the event, including this year's theme, schedule and a brief history of its Cincinnati roots.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
13 Aug. 2025
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By the time the credits rolled my heart was ragged.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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According to the grandmother, who described herself as a single mom raising two sons alone, the accident marked the second time that her grandson has been hospitalized in less than a month — adding that her heart is breaking because of the pain the boy has endured.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Overall, the performances from these past two days captured the essence of breaking about as well as possible given the context.—
Jason Pu,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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In essence, the proposals involve Kyiv surrendering territory in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, in exchange for a ceasefire, an idea the Ukrainian leadership has firmly ruled out.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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At the core of this leadership practice lies coaching—not the performance-review archetype, but deep, generative coaching that shifts mindsets, surfaces mental models and anchors purpose in action.—
Thomas Lim,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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And if the core problem here is that matches will be taken away from clubs’ traditional locations — and more pertinently, their traditional fans — that is on the clubs themselves and, in the case of Villarreal versus Barcelona, the Spanish federation.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Google also stopped publishing complete kernel modification histories and new binary drivers, further hampering independent development efforts.—
Federico Guerrini,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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The kernels are so juicy and just burst in your mouth.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
9 Aug. 2025
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The trip to play the defending Super Bowl champions is a starting point.—
Pat Brennan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Aug. 2025
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Though the characters are fictional and some of the plot points are exaggerated, Williamson clarified that the impetus of the story was based on his father’s struggles and choices.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Cisco beat analysts' expectations for the top and bottom lines during its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
16 Aug. 2025
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The bottom line is a lot of teams are packed close together.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
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The mobile home owners, many of whom paid multiple times that maximum buyout figure for their trailers — which are cemented into the ground and not particularly mobile — argue those sums, and the time they were given to find alternative housing, were insufficient.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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Of Cristian’s starting sum, streaming activity contributes 5,000 units, equating 6.6 million official on-demand audio and video streams of its songs.—
Pamela Bustios,
Billboard,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Bull's-eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%27s-eye. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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