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
Lyme disease, America's most common, affects half a million annually, presenting with symptoms like a bull's-eye rash, treatable with doxycycline.
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Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Patients may develop more widespread skin rashes rather than a single bull's-eye lesion, and some infections have required hospitalization.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
Cities such as Wichita Falls, Childress, and Amarillo are near this hail bull's-eye.
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Anthony Franze,
San Antonio Express-News,
5 Mar. 2026
From the vantage point of Earth orbit, the Eye continues to stare back at us: a giant geological bull's-eye, etched into the Sahara, quietly recording a deep history of Earth written in stone.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
5 Dec. 2025
Some bites may develop a larger red area or a rash, including the bull's-eye pattern associated with Lyme disease, though not every tick bite causes this rash.
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Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
An infected tick bite may cause a bull's-eye rash (a small circle with a ring around it) one week to three months after the bite.
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Mark Gurarie,
Health,
21 Aug. 2025
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
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Patients may develop more widespread skin rashes rather than a single bull's-eye lesion, and some infections have required hospitalization.
—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
Cities such as Wichita Falls, Childress, and Amarillo are near this hail bull's-eye.
—
Anthony Franze,
San Antonio Express-News,
5 Mar. 2026
From the vantage point of Earth orbit, the Eye continues to stare back at us: a giant geological bull's-eye, etched into the Sahara, quietly recording a deep history of Earth written in stone.
—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
5 Dec. 2025
Some bites may develop a larger red area or a rash, including the bull's-eye pattern associated with Lyme disease, though not every tick bite causes this rash.
—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
An infected tick bite may cause a bull's-eye rash (a small circle with a ring around it) one week to three months after the bite.
—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
21 Aug. 2025
Early symptoms include fatigue, fever, joint pain—and a signature bull's-eye rash.
—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bull's-eye
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Aniston, on the other hand, leaned into the shoe's casual roots, wearing hers with jeans and a tank top for a relaxed look that felt quintessentially summer.
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The dynamic Sun in your 9th House of Exploration quincunxes powerful Pluto in your 4th House of Home, so growth calls while roots demand attention.
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Others develop dangerous fluctuations in blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythms because the autonomic nervous system becomes affected.
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Let heart guide tone, and your message lands.
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Some pastimes are distractions, some are distortions, and some few are true distillations—refining a city or a place or a community to its essence, deliciously sipped by all.
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Like the catchphrase to the Wide World of Sports broadcast that first enthralled Hunt with the World Cup, this was the essence of the thrill of victory contrasting, alas, with the agony of defeat.
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Reflective, multilayer shields will block the most heat, and ones with a thicker foam core will work much better than thin ones.
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Sperm production works best at a temperature slightly cooler than core body temperature.
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The three benchmarks Recursive used involve training a small language model, improving AI training speed, and optimizing a GPU kernel, the tiny mathematical steps that a GPU has to perform to train or run an AI model.
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Grill ears in their husks, then cut the kernels from the cob and add them to salads, salsas, grain bowls, or vegetable dishes.
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But an array of issues ultimately lost La Roja the three points – and more worryingly, point towards some potentially bad habits that could cost this team a chance of lifting its second World Cup.
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Restricting the key waterway, which is crucial to the world's oil supply and has become one of the main points of negotiation in the war, comes amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, according to Iran's top military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.
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The bottom line is that the conservative justices want to protect guns, while the liberal justices (and perhaps an increasing number of realistic conservatives) recognize that marijuana use just isn’t that big a deal.
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The bottom line may not be for most of us to gauge.
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That sum will sound shockingly low to anyone who has paid full price at a private college.
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The push matters because of the zero sum nature of TV.
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“Bull's-eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%27s-eye. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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