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toss-up

noun as in even chance

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"I can't do the parenting. I can't get him to these appointments, and work at the same time… I couldn't get my son seen in the right amount of time and see other people's babies in the right amount time. And it was a toss up - and my son won," she says.

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Kondik said his advice until all the votes are counted is for people to “treat the race as though it’s a toss up” — because that’s really the only thing polling has been showing.

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The Cook Political Report has labeled the race a "toss up."

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"I raced last summer with a really unhappy elbow and it was that toss up between 'do I do it now and hope that I'll be back in form for the Games?' or 'do we risk it and risk not being here at all?'"

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“We’re leading Georgia by a lot,” he said the same day that the non-partisan Cook Political Report shifted its ratings for Georgia, Arizona and Nevada from “Lean Republican” to “Toss Up.”

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