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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead-on
Adjective
  • The Master 4’s sensor remains unchanged, still providing smooth and accurate tracking on virtually any surface, with a maximum DPI of 8,000.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • On a team that has allowed the league’s most sacks, McCarthy must learn from QBs like Aaron Rodgers, still the league’s fastest passer and one of its most accurate.
    Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Though Collier crashed to the court after the collision, the National Basketball Referees Association posted a highlight of the play on social media explaining why officials were correct not to blow the whistle.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • How much glue should there be between the whole thing to get the balance correct?
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Watching my great-grandmother, grandmother, mother and aunt serve as loyal members of this sorority shaped my understanding of what true sisterhood and service look like.
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
  • With markets looking unperturbed, that might turn out true sooner if nothing serious comes in the way of the bulls.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Kerzka and the others did their best to comfort them, to bandage small wounds; the most critically injured were already at the hospital.
    Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But in one of his best performances in an Arsenal shirt so far, Zubimendi quickly went about making a difference.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Dead-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead-on. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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