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too close to call
Idioms and Phrases
Resulting in too narrow a margin to make a decision, as in That ball didn't miss by much but it was too close to call , or The election was too close to call, so they decided to have a runoff . This expression comes from sports, where call has signified “a judgment†since the mid-1600s. In the 1960s it began to be applied to pre-election polls and then to the outcome of elections.Example Sentences
Wicked, The Brutalist, Conclave and Anora are also among the top contenders, with the race for best picture too close to call.
City's need for a changing of the guard was made to look even more stark by the ease in which they were dismissed by Real Madrid, yes the holders and the superpower of the Champions League, but also a side they have consistently pushed in matches almost too close to call over several years.
Gore–style, when the yes-vs.-no counts were too close to call and the opposing parties challenged various ballots.
Barboza and Catterall both celebrated at the final bell as pundits and ringside reporters shrugged their shoulders and compared contrasting scorecards with the decision too close to call.
In October, I wrote that the Trump-Harris race was too close to call — and it was.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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