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toss-ups

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plural of toss-up

as in horse races

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deadlocks

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Such victories accustomed many Americans to imagining that their skilled leaders could break seemingly intractable political deadlocks in decisive ways.

— Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2026
Across 10 trials, the system achieved a 90 percent autonomous success rate with four robots and 70 percent with eight, while recovering from navigation errors and formation deadlocks without human assistance.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026

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