touch-and-go
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In the touch-and-go struggle with Agathocles, the author identifies the “playbook that became the standard for warring against Carthage”: taking the fight to Africa and prying away the city’s local allies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
These were not touch-and-go opinions as there was a "strong consensus" on each of these recommendations, the committee said.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
So if things seem touch-and-go in Illinois, at least it’s not Pennsylvania.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2025
The first season of the “RHONY” reboot was touch-and-go, so successfully dialing up the spectacle of it all could mean that Whitfield gets to keep her job.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
After the first, touch-and-go year, my father’s chain of hot dog restaurants began to make him a comfortably wealthy man.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
In a heartfelt social media post late Saturday, Martyn said it was touch and go whether he would live and the experience was a reminder of "how fragile life is".
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
But the appropriators have continued their work through this period… So it’s a touch and go day-by-day analysis that we have here as a leadership team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Genge had been touch and go with a hamstring injury before the tournament, which he claimed to recover from 'like Wolverine'.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024
Now fluctuations on the thermometer make it touch and go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
For a while it was touch and go, hut within a week he was on his way back home.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
