dead center

idiom

: in the exact center
She hung the picture dead center on the wall.

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On this day, director Jeffrey Lo and book, music and lyrics creator Min Kahng plopped dead center at their work station as the chaos and mirth of a new musical exploded around them. David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2025 The building is dead center in an elliptical suburban office park where the roads leading up to it and the parking that surrounds it are arranged in perfect symmetry. Diana Budds, Curbed, 24 Jan. 2025 Dom Smith cut the deficit to four with his solo home run to dead center field in the bottom of the sixth, and in the top of the seventh Chase Anderson flirted with disaster by loading the bases with one out, only to then strike out Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz to escape unscathed. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 May 2024 If there was a Venn diagram of Sicilian and Philly pop culture, Talia Shire would be dead center. Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dead center

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“Dead center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dead%20center. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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