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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

Everybody is realising; the banks won’t discount; and when your bills become due, they will be, to a dead certainty, protested.”

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various

I'm going to marry Betty, that's a dead certainty, and sooner or later Mr. Townsend will withdraw the brutal things he said to me.

From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

Well, dear old fellow, I saw it was a dead certainty at Valoro, and I congratulate you both and wish you every happiness with all my heart.

From A Queen's Error by Henry Curties


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