neck and neck
adverb or adjectiveDefinition of neck and neck
: very close (as in a race)
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Synonyms for neck and neck
Synonyms
close, down-to-the-wire, hairbreadth, narrow, nip and tuck, tight
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The average temperature in July is running neck and neck with July 2013 for the warmest on record. — courant.com, "Month could be warmest July on record," 26 July 2019 Yet with four parties neck and neck, any one of them is in danger of slipping out of contention in the minds of voters. — The Economist, "Britain’s four-party politics looks like a lottery," 11 July 2019 That helped us confirm some good news: Nvidia finally got an RTX card to the performance point worthy of a $500 investment (and, honestly, the card now runs neck and neck with the original RTX 2080). — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "Nvidia refreshes RTX line: “Super” GPUs add performance at same MSRP," 2 July 2019 From 1880 through June 19, the three counties are neck and neck in their tornado counts: Johnson County has 106 tornadoes on record, Dallas County has 101 and Tarrant County has 100, according to the weather service. — Jesus Jimenez, Dallas News, "Which counties in North Texas are most vulnerable to tornadoes? This new map will show you," 25 June 2019 In deep-red Kansas ' Republican gubernatorial primary, the candidate Trump backed on the eve of the election, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, was neck and neck with current Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer. — Fox News, "The Latest: Michigan Dem challenges 'biggest bully' _ Trump," 9 Aug. 2018 Trump won Missouri by 20 points in 2016, and McCaskill and Hawley have been neck and neck in the polls all year. — Tara Golshan, Vox, "It’s official: Sen. Claire McCaskill will face conservative Missouri AG Josh Hawley," 8 Aug. 2018 The Democrat surged in the latter part of the year, polling neck and neck with Noem, but fell just short on Election Day. — Dylan Scott, Vox, "Kristi Noem elected first woman governor of South Dakota," 7 Nov. 2018 Replay and TiVo were sort of neck and neck for a while. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "Why Roku isn’t afraid of competition from Apple, Google and Amazon," 13 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'neck and neck.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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