certainty

Example Sentences

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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

It is not possible to conclude "with certainty" that the wrong donor was used, she says.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“The WBD Board has been guided by the singular principle of securing a transaction that maximizes the value of our iconic assets and delivers as much certainty as possible to our shareholders,” Warner Bros.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

“May was with us,” he said, with the same certainty he might have used telling me it was February.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant