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slam dunk

noun as in a forceful basketball shot

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GOOD Meat has never been able to test the capacity of cell proliferation to that extent, but Tetrick is convinced that once he has the necessary bioreactors, it will be a slam dunk.

From Time

Its effectiveness as invasive species control may be debatable, but its value as pure gonzo fun looks to be a slam dunk.

“There’s no slam dunk because ultimately some court of appeal will have to decide whether in fact Hughes was subject to 1090,” Cabrera said.

Even then, the drug won’t be a slam dunk for everyone with Alzheimer’s.

From Time

With Macy's level of experience—with kernel coding and network stacks in particular—the project looked like a slam dunk.

That may be, but experts say that “similarities” to other attacks is hardly a slam dunk.

And the information that the FBI has presented so far strikes many experts as hardly a slam dunk against Pyongyang.

Apparently, 2016 is not shaping up as a Democratic slam dunk.

Even as a Democrat, I am rooting for the GOP to seize this slam-dunk opportunity.

For Best Actor in a Musical, Neil Patrick Harris seems like a slam dunk for Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

He always looks like he's about to slam-dunk your ass, and he's really into raising his voice for dramatic effect.

Kurt said that the anarchist bookstore would be a slam dunk, but it turned out to be the hardest sell of all.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slam dunk, such as: dunk, dunk shot, jam, and stuff shot.

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

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