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Recent Examples of dead-on And as dead-on comedies will sometimes do, the movie claimed a piece of reality. James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025 Courtesy of Tierra Patagonia Courtesy of Tierra Patagonia Location Tierra Patagonia sits on the picturesque shores of Lake Sarmiento, with dead-on views of the park’s iconic mountains and namesake towers. Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 So in the unlikely event that there’s a dead-on collision with a large asteroid at the reactor site, the debris of the reactor may be distributed in the dust of the moon, but all those little TRISO particles will hopefully remain intact. Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2025 Pixar’s first feature is still the template for every great movie the studio has made since: earned emotions; ripping action sequences; dead-on insights into human nature; and lots of giddy, witty, silly laughs. Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 June 2025 Simpson seemed particularly excited to see the photographer Dawoud Bey, who’s spent a half century chronicling life on the streets of Black communities, mostly through dead-on portraits. Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 That dawn of discovery is an incredible moment that plays out in a car with Jordan’s reaction to Sammie’s star-making talent being dead-on perfect. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025 Indeed, Dean Edwards' Denzel is hilarious and dead-on, Kenan Thompson's impression here less so. EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead-on
Adjective
  • Customer service and tech support will provide faster resolutions and more accurate answers.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That volume of data is impractical to fit theoretical models to deliver large-scale, accurate predictions.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lloyd is 100 percent correct that throwing him into his first start against any of those teams could end up being a massive mistake and could set him up for failure.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • All documents marked secret should only be visible to people with the correct clearances.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Early in the novel, Harold points out that authors are constantly looking for ways to bury their true beliefs in their text, rather than state them outright.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Like many Stephen King stories, the truest horrors are the ones that exist in reality.
    James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The extra point was good but there was a holding penalty on the Rebels.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
  • After 10 tumultuous years with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kadri delivered his best campaign with the Colorado Avalanche in 2021-22, posting 89 points in the regular season and finishing by hoisting the Stanley Cup.
    Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Dead-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead-on. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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