certitude

Example Sentences

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Too often, all they have in common is an unshakable moral certitude of the righteousness of their respective causes.

From Washington Post

“And it is nearly impossible for us to have that certitude in an operation in which we are not participating.”

From Washington Post

It maintained a certitude that New Yorkers needed protection from their neighbors, and that those who provided it merited sympathy.

From New York Times

Could they, somehow, be both: a public recognition of her unconscious certitude that the young Black man she shot was fitter for a bullet than a stun?

From New York Times

But when a lot of them are digested, weighted and converted into a precise probability figure, down to the 10th of a decimal point, they acquire a bogus air of certitude.

From Washington Post