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dead-eye

[ded-ahy] / ˈdɛdˌaɪ /


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Neser and Green threatened to take the game away from England in a counter-punching stand of 50, only for Carse's dead eye to punish Green's hesitancy in setting off for a single.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

Nobody except King/Drew sophomore Donald Thompson, a lanky dead eye who shoots like Lonzo Ball.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2023

A black man with a dead eye asks her whether or not Julie is alive and where she is.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2019

Through the thick glass he could see the dead eye in the ceiling, the unblinking red light.

From Nature • Feb. 5, 2019

One green eye stared at Hermod, and one sunken, dead eye.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman




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