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heads or tails





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He wanted to take a crack at writing like artists like Billie Eilish, but he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 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

Measuring the wave function, however, causes it to collapse, mathematically speaking, such that the system in our example shows up as either heads or tails.

From Scientific American • May 22, 2023

There are only two choices: heads or tails.

From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023

Slivers of gray fish pickled in white glue, smoked fish with yellow eyes that bulged, raw red fish without heads or tails.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord




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