as in right
as stated or indicated without the slightest difference made reservations at a restaurant that's smack-dab in the center of town

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Recent Examples of smack-dab The modern space includes stainless-steel appliances and sleek white cabinetry, with a butcher’s block island smack-dab in the center. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 July 2025 It’s located smack-dab in the middle of the city, where guests can easily access tons of hiking and mountain biking trailheads that lead to some of the most jaw-dropping vistas in the entire country. Annie Archer, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2025 Universal: Unlike Disneyland, Universal Hollywood makes a feature of being smack-dab in the middle of North Hollywood. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 July 2024 First, there’s the challenge of getting to your small intestine, which is smack-dab in the middle of your GI tract. Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Oct. 2024 Released smack-dab in the middle of the pandemic, the song sees Charli longing to wildly lose herself in a club, a feeling many of us could relate to at that time. Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2024 That’s smack-dab on top of the theoretical prediction, seeming to confirm the standard model of cosmology. Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024 The 1080p webcam sits smack-dab in the middle of the top bezel. PCMAG, 25 July 2024 Now the Fieri-fave has opened a second eatery called The Food Republic smack-dab in the middle of Fort Lauderdale’s busy hub, where Sunrise Boulevard and U.S. Highway 1 meet. Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024
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  • But as well as the Highlanders played in the first half, they were shut out in the second half and came within a play or two of letting the Scotts right back in the game.
    Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 23 Aug. 2025
  • That multi-part tube includes a 0.02-micron filter to take care of everything right down to virus sizes – bacteria, sand, parasites, microplastics and more.
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  • The latest multilateral environmental treaty being negotiated by the United Nations has just encountered a major setback in negotiations.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Anti-property tax activists have a simple solution to the loss of revenue: just spend less.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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  • Under its mandate issued by the Security Council, it is not empowered to enforce peace: The responsibility for implementing the resolution, and achieving lasting security and stability, lies squarely with the parties themselves.
    Jean-Pierre Lacroix, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • And Anthony figures to be squarely in the middle of it.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Smack-dab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smack-dab. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.

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