as in right
as stated or indicated without the slightest difference
made reservations at a restaurant that's smack-dab in the center of town
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Recent Examples of smack-dab
An African nation bounded by the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to its north has prospered a kinship in a town located in a state literally smack-dab in the middle of America — a town whose new college football stadium is accented by light towers made to represent wheat.
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Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
19 June 2026
The route traces nearly 18 miles of the Lakefront Trail—all of them scenic—with the fountain smack-dab in the middle.
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Midwest Living,
12 June 2026
Two plays later, in that same game, safeties Hufanga and Brandon Jones ran smack-dab into each other and dropped another easy would-be interception from New York quarterback Jaxson Dart.
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Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
9 June 2026
Nothing says Berlin quite like art, and this sophisticated hotel smack-dab in Mitte’s bustling center, steps from the Brandenburg Gate, features one-of-a-kind guest rooms decorated by local and international creatives.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 Apr. 2026
The president is set to give an address updating Americans on the Iran war on the evening of April 1, right smack-dab in the middle of primetime TV.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
And Illinois is smack-dab in the middle of the largest market in the world.
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Jim Nowlan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
Katharine's first professional home was the third floor of Building 5, a seven-story brick edifice lined with wide windows smack-dab in the middle of the GE factory.
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
Li grew up in Millbrae, smack-dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay area.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Jan. 2026
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
19 June 2026
The route traces nearly 18 miles of the Lakefront Trail—all of them scenic—with the fountain smack-dab in the middle.
—
Midwest Living,
12 June 2026
Two plays later, in that same game, safeties Hufanga and Brandon Jones ran smack-dab into each other and dropped another easy would-be interception from New York quarterback Jaxson Dart.
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Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
9 June 2026
Nothing says Berlin quite like art, and this sophisticated hotel smack-dab in Mitte’s bustling center, steps from the Brandenburg Gate, features one-of-a-kind guest rooms decorated by local and international creatives.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 Apr. 2026
The president is set to give an address updating Americans on the Iran war on the evening of April 1, right smack-dab in the middle of primetime TV.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
And Illinois is smack-dab in the middle of the largest market in the world.
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Jim Nowlan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
Katharine's first professional home was the third floor of Building 5, a seven-story brick edifice lined with wide windows smack-dab in the middle of the GE factory.
—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
Li grew up in Millbrae, smack-dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay area.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smack-dab
Adverb
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Go wine tasting right in town, or do your research and drive the Nevada County foothill roads to a few local wineries with pretty tasting rooms.
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According to Jackson’s account, Fong said her father, the village headman, removed large pieces of wreckage from the crash site and organized the burial of McKinney’s body right there.
Adverb
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Well, Ariana seems to remember, whereas Hudson is determined to just undo the breakup and pretend like none of it ever happened.
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Now that the news is out, ENHYPEN is doing more than just showing up for a panel.
Adverb
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Core Millennials — born in the late 1980s and early 1990s, squarely in the middle of their generation — graduated into the teeth of the 2008 financial crisis.
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This sits squarely within the company’s broader premiumization strategy.
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