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counting heads



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"Babies?" he continued and walked around the group counting heads.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025

“The point-in-time is not just counting heads, it’s an assessment of how well we’re doing,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2024

Whips are responsible for counting heads and rounding up party members for votes and quorum calls, and they occasionally stand in for the majority or minority leaders in their absence.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2018

The driver we booked to take us to Heathrow politely ignored us lining up outside his van and counting heads; we ran through the airport when we were two hours early.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2018

But the rough process of counting heads imposes unduly on the imagination.

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon


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