heads or tails
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In fact, of course, the chances of a coin coming up heads are 50% with each flip, and they have nothing to do with how many heads or tails came in prior flips.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The iPhone Clean Up tool did OK with the grass, but couldn’t make heads or tails of the tents in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Whether that falls heads or tails, though, generative AI isn't going to be what kills the arts and humanities.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023
Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails.
From Scientific American ● May 22, 2023
You each flip a nickel, and it comes up heads or tails.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
