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[sur-tn-tee] / ˈsɜr tn ti /




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A separate June 2026 analysis of 45 studies involving 2,205 patients also documented improvements in pain and function, but judged the overall certainty of the evidence to be low or very low.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

You don’t want to retire if you’re worried about your long-term financial certainty, but you don’t want to retire into a vacuum, either.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“When I’m out there telling the investors about our capital, I need to have certainty that it’s real and durable growth,” Jones said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Gibney says he doesn’t believe Musk manipulated votes, but the sequence leaves open what, if anything, lay behind his apparent early certainty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

But in my heart, I felt a slow-growing certainty of my own: I wasn’t built to practice law.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

There are no certainties but death and taxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

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

Unfortunately, there are few certainties regarding the lives of our forager ancestors.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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