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
A new coast-to-coast professional-football league is a dead certainty for 1945�if everyone doesn't get killed in the rush.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length the squadron was again sighted, and their capture seemed a dead certainty, when suddenly it disappeared into a small inlet, apparently in the iron-bound coast of Kamtschatka.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by Smith, J. J.
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 Lever, Charles James
