close call
Example Sentences
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Cuts have become an increasingly close call because price increases have been more persistent than the Fed would like, the minutes indicated.
"A lot of pent-up emotion came out on the 18th green. A moment like that makes all the years and all the close calls worth it," said McIlroy.
From BBC
The insurance team suspects that many of the close calls they studied in the field — homes that almost burned but didn’t — ultimately survived thanks to firefighters who stepped in.
From Los Angeles Times
Chair Jerome Powell will say it was a close call, but markets are correct in expecting a cut.
From Barron's
The coming interest-rate decision by the Federal Reserve could be an unusually close call.
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