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certain

[sur-tn] / ˈsɜr tn /






Usage

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Certain, one of a handful of adjectives indicating full belief and trust that something is true, suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt. Confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt. Positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism. Sure, the simplest and most general term, expresses mere absence of doubt. 


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Other excluded areas included certain flood zones and in the vicinity of listed buildings.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

At a certain point, I realized that expecting too much was unwise.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

In this system, certain rotational states are physically equivalent even when they spin in opposite directions.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

“You’re putting money on the outcome of potential events happening or you’re betting on certain probabilities with respect to future events.”

From Salon • May 24, 2026

I’d seen them on occasion in the dining hall, and we’d bumped into one another at the library, I was almost certain.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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