nailed
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Pollsters basically nailed Hong’s share of the vote: Averaged out, surveys over the past month showed her at about 41 percent; she ended up with 39 percent.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
Even without any notion of the X-Men, he nailed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Everyone agreed that they nailed it with the coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
After years of both slight miscalculations and substantial errors, it looked to me like he finally nailed the formula.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
But Magic was looking at a long object made of wooden slats nailed together that curled back on themselves at one end.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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