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
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
General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous.
From Time Magazine Archive
I told him again just now, that if the wind comes away from west or south-west, or even if it falls calm, he'll find he's caught, to a dead certainty.
From "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Becke, Louis
Heigho! it might be a dead certainty too, though that, children, is only my little joke.
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon
