as in accurate
being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard
a stand-up comedian known for her dead-on impressions of various divas of stage and screen
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Recent Examples of dead-on
The placement on Favre’s 350-yard shot had been dead-on and the lungs were jellied.
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John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2025
Amelia Blood sent a hard sweep into the circle dead-on on one, and Casucci tipped it in for a 1-0 lead.
—Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
And as dead-on comedies will sometimes do, the movie claimed a piece of reality.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Courtesy of Tierra Patagonia Courtesy of Tierra Patagonia Location
Tierra Patagonia sits on the picturesque shores of Lake Sarmiento, with dead-on views of the park’s iconic mountains and namesake towers.
—Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
So in the unlikely event that there’s a dead-on collision with a large asteroid at the reactor site, the debris of the reactor may be distributed in the dust of the moon, but all those little TRISO particles will hopefully remain intact.
—Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2025
Pixar’s first feature is still the template for every great movie the studio has made since: earned emotions; ripping action sequences; dead-on insights into human nature; and lots of giddy, witty, silly laughs.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 June 2025
The Synanon Connection With her long coat, oversized glasses and dead-on stare, Toni Colette’s central Wayward character gives off the uncomfortable feeling of a cult leader.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead-on
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Mostly, though, Boland strangles batters with his suffocating and deadly-accurate line and length.—
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Comedians can sometimes be eerily accurate in the way their jokes predict the future.—
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Amazon’s listings, automatically generated by an experimental artificial intelligence tool, didn’t always correspond to the correct product in Burzio’s inventory.—
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Most importantly, recipients should ensure their banking details are correct and up to date before requesting or receiving a transfer.—
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This is especially true for plants that are marginally hardy in your area, as well as common perennials like woodland phlox, lamb’s ear, and hardy geraniums.—
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Fellow true freshman Joshua Moore should be in line for a bigger role next season as well.—
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In the first half, the defensive activity and competitive spirit were far better against the league’s best team, a night after Miami came up woefully short in both of those areas against the league’s worst team.—
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Despite being given three power plays in the first, the B’s were not good at all on the man advantage.—
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“Dead-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead-on. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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