heads or tails

Example Sentences

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I can read Hitler’s secret orders but can’t make heads or tails of these five words from my mum.

From Literature

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

Whether that falls heads or tails, though, generative AI isn't going to be what kills the arts and humanities.

From Salon

Whatever the outcome—heads or tails in our example—it shall hold for all observers.

From Scientific American

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