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Closest possible finish
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dead heat
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Wikipedia
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Dead Heat is a 2002 crime comedy-drama film starring Kiefer Sutherland , Anthony LaPaglia , and Radha Mitchell . It is written and directed by Mark Malone.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent
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.