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It was an outlier compared with the average, which showed a dead heat, but — as with a number of her outlier polls — it proved correct.

Recent polls indicated that Tuesday’s contest is a statistical dead heat.

Those contests are in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and even Texas, which are polling closer to a dead heat.

Two October surveys conducted on behalf of an independent Kentucky media consortium have shown that the race is a dead heat.

The House freshman from Yell County is in a dead heat with Sen. Mark Pryor in the Arkansas Senate race.

The race is currently considered a tossup by outside observers and polling has Ernst and Braley in a dead heat.

While some House members are struggling mightily, others are keeping their races at at least a dead heat.

The campaign for president has already begun, and the New Jersey governor is in a dead heat with Hillary Clinton.

The interest in the game became quiescent, and he set to work to finish the story at a dead heat.

In the case of an undoubted dead-heat the game should go on as if nothing had happened.

Oh, the Thompsons won every cup until the Smalls arrived on a Monday; then 'twas a dead heat.

The Shubert theatres and Carnegie libraries are running a dead heat in an earnest endeavor to perpetuate their respective names.

In every race she is handicapped out of any chance of winning or even getting a dead heat.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dead heat, such as: blanket finish, draw, even money, mexican standoff, neck-and-neck race, and photo finish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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