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- noun Alternative spelling of
dead set . - adjective Alternative spelling of
dead set .
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Examples
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Dayton has more room to operate than Koch and Zellers, who have to line up votes from a caucus that includes a new, powerful faction of lawmakers dead-set against spending increases and others who hope for a quick way out of the shutdown.
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"It's been a constant battle," she said, detailing obstacles that ran the gamut from her family's incomprehension and dead-set opposition, to the scarcity and sometimes prohibitively high prices of fresh produce, to the near-total absence of meatless options from restaurant and cafeteria menus.
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Of course the Republicans here are dead-set against any tax increases at all.
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The gig was at the MGM and I was dead-set on doing a trick that in practice I bungled almost every time.
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The NFL is like that erratic teacher in high school, who always let students get away with talking in class, but comes back from Christmas break dead-set on enforcing the rules.
Amy Turek: Who is the NFL Really Trying to Protect? Amy Turek 2010
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Of course the Republicans here are dead-set against any tax increases at all.
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Of course the Republicans here are dead-set against any tax increases at all.
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Of course the Republicans here are dead-set against any tax increases at all.
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Of course the Republicans here are dead-set against any tax increases at all.
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Listen, like a lot of folks (I'm sure), I'm not dead-set against this tunnel.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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