certainty
Example Sentences
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"We can't look back, all we can do is look to the future," said Jones, adding the UK government's investment brought "certainty, confidence and optimism".
From BBC
There’s a special kind of comfort in having a short list of meals you know, with almost mathematical certainty, will land.
From Salon
“Long-term planning for a product that won’t be ready for years is already tough enough. We need the certainty of tariff-free trade for America’s only native spirit to flourish.”
Declaring certainty in either direction carries risks, but only one direction preserves the ability to update our understanding as evidence accumulates.
One of the more obscure certainties in life is that once you hit the age for required minimum distributions, which is now 73, you have to take them from your accounts that have pretax money.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
