unerring
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unerring (comparative more unerring, superlative most unerring)
- (often figurative) consistently accurate; not missing a target.
- 1717: Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. -- John Dryden's 1697–1700 translation of "The Story of Meleager and Atalanta", in Ovid's Metamorphoses (tr. Garth, Dryden, et al.), book VIII, pub. 1717
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
- One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]
- 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1:
- As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
- 2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Debutant Mateo Retegui was the beneficiary of poor work from Harry Maguire, whose failed attempt to close down the danger on the edge of the box allowed the Italians to shift the ball to the 23-year-old to drill an unerring finish past Jordan Pickford after 56 minutes.
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consistently accurate
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