certainty
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Another told me: "You can't say with any certainty what kind of politics he is going to pursue."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
NatWest's Paul Thwaite says there could be a "powerful recipe for sustained growth" from the private capital that flows from "long-term certainty and genuine collaboration".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
He recalled his father, Rick, playing on a series of non-guaranteed contracts, jumping from team to team and city to city with no certainty that he would last a season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Even so, scientists still cannot say with certainty which volcanic feature is erupting, how deep the active vent originally was, or when it last erupted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The certainty of the feeling was clear and bright and brown and lean and it hit me in my throat so that breathing became weeping.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Death, taxes and Jean Smart winning another Emmy are among life’s certainties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
This is an inflection point, with Iran poised precariously between old certainties and future possibilities, both at home and abroad.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
These calculations are useful, but they are estimates rather than certainties.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
AI systems produce probabilities, and people treat them as certainties.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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