dead certainty
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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
That I shall suffer for, to a pretty dead certainty.
From The Shadow of a Man by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
For capital, despite all the cant about its conservatism, is really moved by extremes: it is allured either by a dead certainty or by an equally defunct impossibility.
From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop
"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
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