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Recent Examples of spot-on After some thumbs-up, thumbs-down tweaks, the images were surprisingly spot-on. Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 14 June 2025 Monica Barbaro’s largely spot-on performance introduced Baez, her music, and her folk-Madonna image to a generation born decades later. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2025 However, in the imperfect science of tracking, there were myriad moments when The Quorum was spot-on correct. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 June 2025 As the visiting filmmaker, Macon Blair (Oppenheimer) delivers a subtle, spot-on portrait of Hollywood swagger costumed in just-a-guy scruffiness. Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for spot-on
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spot-on
Adjective
  • Prices were accurate at the time of publication but may change.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 5 July 2025
  • All odds are accurate as of 5:00 a.m. ET on Friday.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • To ensure the headphones are easy to wear, ultra-soft and durable ear cups, along with advanced damping materials, tuned venting and precise port adjustments, provide a high level of passive noise isolation.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • No one else is doing this in a scalable, premium and culturally precise way.
    Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • And Chicago might get drenched again on Sunday, if those forecasts are correct.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 6 July 2025
  • Why Do People Use Skin Bleaching? Skin bleaching can be used to even out skin tone and correct areas of skin that are darker than the surrounding skin.
    Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • Using the mathematical and computational models, researchers were able to gather insights into the Earth’s depth and composition of materials under the Afar surface.
    Jay Kakade July 05, New Atlas, 5 July 2025
  • Sophisticated mathematical models coexist with surprisingly basic tools.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • Be open to what needs to be dismantled in order to build something stronger and more aligned with your true path in the future.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
  • Country singer Gavin Adcock proved that to still be true by slamming the March 2024 LP, which is charting ahead of his forthcoming effort, Own Worst Enemy, during a rant at his recent concert.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
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    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2025
  • But maybe, in an odd way, the timing is good, given the looming July 31 trade deadline.
    Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025

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“Spot-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spot-on. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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