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This model—a dead-ringer tribute to the Boss 302 of 1969-70, a track-prepped road car sold to meet the production-car rules for the SCCA's Trans Am series—is so good it actually highlights the cheezy remnants of the Mustang donor car base price around $23,000, e.g., the plasticky interior, the econo-box center stack of switches, World-of-Playskool speedo and tach.
A Boss on the Road With a Peon's Interior Dan Neil 2011
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Enjoyment of any game these days is bound to be regularly disturbed by some bloke, generally so wide, vast and neckless that if he sprayed himself green he'd be a dead-ringer for Thunderbird 2, who apparently suffers from a medical condition that means he has to eat a hamburger and fries every 15 minutes or he will lapse into a coma.
Sheepskin-wearing seating bores get my goat | Harry Pearson 2011
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Ford The 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 is a dead-ringer tribute car to the Boss 302 of 1969-70, a track-prepped road car sold to meet the production car rules for the SCCA's Trans Am series.
A Boss on the Road 2011
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The malevolent Nurse guides her to the human world, where she tries to get the discontented Dyer's Wife a presumed dead-ringer for Strauss's turbulent spouse, Pauline to sell her shadow, which means the Wife will have riches but no children.
Women on the Verge Of a Marital Breakdown Heidi Waleson 2011
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There's CERTAINLY nothing okay with using an audio clip that is CLEARLY designed to sound like "Hail to the Redskins" on top of a commercial that includes a stand-in that just so happens to be a dead-ringer for Art Modell.
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Jim, a dead-ringer for Stevie Winwood with red hair and a quick smile, was a world-class horndog.
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As I rarely tire of pointing out, it was a dead-ringer for the bill Republicans rallied around as a conservative alternative to the big-goverment overreach of ClintonCare, not to mention the bill Mitt Romney passed in Massachusetts.
Obama's moderate health-care law Ezra Klein 2010
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He brings up the fact that Elena is “a dead-ringer for Katherine” and reminds Stefan that they “both know how well that ended.”
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Had Ms. Coulter worn a different dress, it would be a dead-ringer for her 2004 book Treason.
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G-Dub's performance was an extended dead-ringer for Will Ferrell's miraculous turn in Old School's quiz show finale featuring James Carville.
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