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It appealed to her straightaway.

From BBC

If no one wins a majority straightaway, an instant runoff will occur.

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Then, with Cease out of the game, the Dodgers added two more in the third, when Will Smith snapped his streak of nine hitless at-bats to start the series by launching a two-run home run to straightaway center.

Rather, the biggest thing is that it came against a Joe Musgrove four-seamer, with Smith barreling up an elevated 3-and-1 heater — the kind he has so often missed or fouled back or hit weakly for an out the last two seasons — and launching it to straightaway center at an estimated distance of 426 feet.

"Hopefully it's nothing to be concerned about. I'm quite relaxed, because if it's something bad, you feel it straightaway a bit more."

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

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