head or tail
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Who knows whether we’re at the head or tail of the Anthropocene, but the movie seems weary of our dominion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
As upsetting as this is, I really can’t make head or tail of it.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2016
Who can make head or tail of what goes on in the scenes for Princess Pirlipat and the mice in Act II?
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2015
Let H = the event of getting a head on the first flip followed by a head or tail on the second flip.
From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013
I couldn’t make of it head, or tail, or middle.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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