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
It is waste of breath to tell Selwyn that the men in whose hands he is are manipulating the telephone or wire and always betting on a dead certainty.
From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
Otherwise—ambling along haphazard as they were—they’d have lost their head-coverings to a dead certainty.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
