Risk managers regularly stress-tested portfolios to estimate tail risk, the probability that returns fall more than three standard deviations below the mean.

The teacher often uses tail questions to prompt quieter students without putting them on the spot.

She added a tail question to the end of her sentence to invite agreement.

The taxidermist de-tailed the fox before mounting it for display.

Please de-tail the shrimp before cooking them.

The trail we followed tailed away beyond the trees, leaving us to navigate by memory.

After midnight the music tailed off and the crowd began to drift away.

Even though they were expected to finish last, the tail-enders pulled off a surprising victory in the final match.

Optimizing tail calls can significantly improve the performance of recursive algorithms.

Researchers recorded multiple tail-sheddings among the lizard population after the predator invasion.