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Recent Examples of toss-up
Cook Political Report in March labeled 18 House races toss-ups, eight of those seats currently held by a GOP member.
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Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
The Cook Political Report once again positions the 8th District race as a toss-up in 2026 — one of only 18 races nationwide with such a ranking — while the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia includes the race among 19 with toss-up status in its rankings.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025
The Gators are slight favorites going into this game, but this is a toss-up.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
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Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
The Cook Political Report once again positions the 8th District race as a toss-up in 2026 — one of only 18 races nationwide with such a ranking — while the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia includes the race among 19 with toss-up status in its rankings.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025
The Gators are slight favorites going into this game, but this is a toss-up.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toss-up
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Medicare Advantage is at the center of the seesaw as health care stakeholders—on the payer and provider sides alike—parse meaning from these early earnings reports.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Four batters into the ninth, however, the Dodgers had tilted the seesaw again.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2025
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For decades, the idea of big-league baseball in Orlando felt like nothing more than a mirage; especially in the shadow of the Tampa Bay Rays and the persistent deadlock surrounding a permanent stadium deal in the Bay area.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 May 2025
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But the cluster model offers a way to break persistent deadlocks on other, more controversial areas of policy, such as defense or climate action, by allowing groups of like-minded European states to cooperate more deeply without the constraint of needing EU-wide unanimity.—
Sophia Besch,
Foreign Affairs,
5 May 2025
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“Toss-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toss-up. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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