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Examples of smack-dab in a Sentence
made reservations at a restaurant that's smack-dab in the center of town
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Universal: Unlike Disneyland, Universal Hollywood makes a feature of being smack-dab in the middle of North Hollywood.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 July 2024
First, there’s the challenge of getting to your small intestine, which is smack-dab in the middle of your GI tract.
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Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Oct. 2024
Released smack-dab in the middle of the pandemic, the song sees Charli longing to wildly lose herself in a club, a feeling many of us could relate to at that time.
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Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2024
That’s smack-dab on top of the theoretical prediction, seeming to confirm the standard model of cosmology.
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Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024
The 1080p webcam sits smack-dab in the middle of the top bezel.
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PCMAG, 25 July 2024
Now the Fieri-fave has opened a second eatery called The Food Republic smack-dab in the middle of Fort Lauderdale’s busy hub, where Sunrise Boulevard and U.S. Highway 1 meet.
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Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024
But the newest tenant, Alara, is something altogether different: a downtown-caliber, fine-dining restaurant smack-dab in the middle of it all.
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Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2024
Right now, one of them is smack-dab center stage at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Rupert Goold’s production of The Hunt.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1892, in the meaning defined above
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“Smack-dab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smack-dab. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
smack-dab
adverbˈsmak-ˈdab
: exactly sense 1b
smack-dab in the middle
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