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dead-eye

[ded-ahy] / ˈdɛdˌaɪ /


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Smith is capable of penetrating any defence with his acceleration and dead-eye distribution, while the physicality and hard running lines of Ollie Lawrence at 12 should help the Harlequins star play to his strengths.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2023

He was a dead-eye long-range shooter in pickup basketball.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 25, 2019

Leaving school at 15, things moved fast for Stewart, and he quickly became a dead-eye trap shooter, winning national titles, qualifying for the British team and competing at the 1957 European Championships in Paris.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2015

"That game changed basketball forever," said Lynn Shackelford, a dead-eye shooter for the Bruins in 1968.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2015

The single cable passed over a hook, and through a dead-eye, which completed the apparatus, and kept it in check.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor




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