certainty

Example Sentences

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The lack of certainty over when the conflict will end has fueled some negative sentiment among investors, who had hoped for a deal between the two and a plan for reopening the waterway.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

With no certainty that jet fuel prices will return to pre-war lows, chief executives are having to rethink expansion plans and plane orders.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

We take it day by day, week by week, like adults who have finally accepted that certainty is an illusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

So the team asked the state to grant them a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, something commonly used in real-estate development to mitigate risk by creating tax certainty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realise.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley