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Closest possible finish
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dead heat
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n. a tie in a race
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Among non-religious-right voters, the race for governor was a dead heat . ▪ If you look merely at voting margins, there is a dead heat . ▪ Last year the Florida race was, in effect, a dead heat . ▪ The trucks bound across the ...
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n. (context idiomatic English) a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent
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Dead Heat is a 1988 American action comedy horror film directed by Mark Goldblatt and starring Treat Williams , Joe Piscopo and Vincent Price . The B movie is about an LAPD police officer who is murdered while attempting to arrest zombies who have been ...
Usage examples of dead heat.
We have reason to believe they were running close to a dead heat with GeneCorp, so we can recoup our earlier failure.
The men instantly mounted the women and for three hours kept them working in a dead heat.
So if these guys didn't find somewhere else to go in the next eight minutes, it was going to be a dead heat (terrible choice of words there) as to whether I died of suffocation or boiled in my own sweat.
Moreta could see the starting poles forlornly tumbled about where the spectacular dead heat of the last race had been run.