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evening the score
verb
Present participle of even the score
Exact(23)
Alfonzo had just given the Mets their first run in two nights with a two-out, run-scoring double in the bottom of the sixth inning, evening the score at 1-1.
Ten minutes later, Djibril Cisse knocked one in for Q.P.R., evening the score to 1-1.
"Then it becomes a matter of evening the score; you're not cheating, you're restoring fairness".
Aaron Hill knocked in Bautista with a sacrifice fly, evening the score at 2-2.
Still, as the opera goes on (this is a three-hour evening), the score seems increasingly padded.
Since then, he has gone some way toward evening the score (despite the points he's racked up for adultery).
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Ms. Ephron, whose novel "Heartburn," a fictionalized account of her divorce from the journalist Carl Bernstein, is one of the great evening-the-score books of the past 30 years, sounds both exasperated and amused.
Using some of the most gruesome historical illustrations he could find, accompanied by a text that is printed in heavy black type of different sizes, Mr Fo's evening-the-score analysis is provocative, to say the least.Italy's interest in raking over the past may attract readers, but will it attract voters?
She evens the score Friday.
The Red Wings had evened the score.
A hit could have evened the score.
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