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"ref": "2013, Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian, Fire with Fire:",
"text": "I give it a flick, so the daisy charm swings back and forth like a pendulum, dead center in the middle of his windshield.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Alternative form of dead-center"
],
"links": [
[
"dead-center",
"dead-center#English"
]
],
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"alt-of",
"alternative",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
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{
"word": "dead-center"
},
{
"word": "deadcenter"
},
{
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "dead centre"
},
{
"word": "dead-centre"
}
],
"word": "dead center"
}
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