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dead center

[ded sen-ter] / ˈdɛd ˈsɛn tər /




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The piston faces have small, crescent-shaped reliefs into which the valves extend near the top dead center.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

But the Dodgers needed just four batters to match that with Andy Pages belting a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, to dead center in the bottom of the inning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025

"RoboCop" endures and we are still talking about it almost four decades later because of the social and political issues it confronted, right there, dead center in the film.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

Planted dead center on the stage in “This House Is Not a Home,” a slippery, ever-shifting work by Nile Harris, is a house — a bounce house.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2024

It was after five in the morning when he found him lying almost in the dead center of the Lawn.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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