dead certainty
Example Sentences
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If you haven’t actually fixed anything, it’s a dead certainty the enigmatic bug will return sometime in the future at the worst possible moment.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2013
General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The more like a dead certainty it looks the better I shall be pleased."
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
Tobacco Trust was beaten by a short head, as of course you know, but Onlooker is a dead certainty for to-morrow.
From The Twelfth Hour by Ada Leverson
A duel is meant to be a hazard, not a dead certainty!
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
