certainty

“Until California adopts comprehensive wildfire reforms to provide long-term certainty for customers, wildfire victims and utilities, the Legislature should not advance policies that increase regulatory uncertainty and customer costs,” PG&E spokesperson Jennifer Robison said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

“It’s never possible to say with complete certainty that all mines have been eliminated, only that the risk has been reduced to acceptable levels.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Rhodes thinks the wildfire alert arguably met the bar for urgency and severity, but perhaps not for certainty of a threat to life.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

One of the things I have always loved about “Bob’s Burgers” is the bittersweet certainty that the Belchers may get ahead, but never by very much.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

In fact, I could say with stone-cold certainty that I was never going back to such a place.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

“There are very few certainties or permanent decisions in my life right now,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Death, taxes and Jean Smart winning another Emmy are among life’s certainties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

AI systems produce probabilities, and people treat them as certainties.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

Bournemouth and Palace offer up two certainties of managerial change, but decisions may well have to be made elsewhere depending on events between now and the end of the season.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Pure mathematics does indeed deal with certainties, but its applications are only as good as the underlying empirical assumptions, simplifications, and estimations that go into them.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos