How to Use toss-up in a Sentence
toss-up
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That game, of course, will be a toss-up now.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
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This time This series looks like a toss-up.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
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Inland counties are much more of a toss-up.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
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The race is still considered a toss-up.
—Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 20 June 2026
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Who can make the stops will decide it, which makes this game a toss-up on the road.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026
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Shortstop is the biggest toss-up.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
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Either way, this is a toss-up that will come down to the last week of the season.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2023
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Most experts and observers in the region view the race as a toss-up.
—Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2025
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On the last night of the conference, the dinner was a toss-up.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2023
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The presidential race is neck and neck, a toss-up, a dead heat.
—Jack Schlossberg, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2024
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The governor's race is widely seen as a toss-up.
—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 18 May 2026
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Polls have been mixed and most forecasters have rated the race a toss-up.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 2 Nov. 2026
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The race has been rated a toss-up by CPR.
—Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2026
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All in all, the choice between the treadmill and the street is pretty much a toss-up.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2023
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Arizona is no longer a toss-up state in the presidential race.
—Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
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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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The toss-up here will come down to short-term value versus long-term potential.
—Katie Woo, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
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Ross sees the case as a toss-up, but predicts the court won’t overturn the entire program.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
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That remains a toss-up, which few would have imagined at the start of this election season.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
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Analysts have rated the district as a toss-up.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2026
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Ahead of this year’s midterms, only 18 races are considered toss-ups.
—Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
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Considering how alike the two devices are, this could almost be a toss-up.
—PCMAG, 19 Mar. 2025
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The consequences to all this are real, and could impact toss-up races around the country.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 7 July 2026
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Progressives did pick up a win in Michigan's one true toss-up district.
—Saige Miller, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026
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Meanwhile coach of the year is a toss-up between three managers who really stepped up to the task.
—Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
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Some answers, though, fell on the edge of this somewhat murky threshold—thus the slight toss-up in final scores.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
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Otherwise, the rest of the re-signing options are pretty much toss-ups.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
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Miller-Meeks and Valadao are running in districts now seen as toss-ups.
—Rahul Mukherjee, NPR, 31 July 2026
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But as the map has solidified in the last month, all three toss-ups now lean toward Democrats.
—Maham Javaid, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
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The 11th race, in Alaska, is still rated a toss-up as results come in.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
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